Researchers have used neutron scattering to enrich our understanding of chiral phonons. Like regular phonons, chiral phonons convey sound and heat, but they are also magnetic, thanks to the twirling motions they acquire from the symmetries of their host lattice.
Neutrons Illuminate the Magnetic Dance of Chiral Phonons
Neutron scattering has provided a new and broader view of the twirling collective atomic vibrations in a magnetic crystal.
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March 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Researchers have used neutron scattering to enrich our understanding of chiral phonons. Like regular phonons, chiral phonons convey sound and heat, but they are also magnetic, thanks to the twirling motions they acquire from the symmetries of their host lattice.
Scientists Catch Sound Making a Quantum Jump With a Microscopic Tuning Fork www.discovermagazine.com/scientists-c...
Scientists Catch Sound Making a Quantum Jump With a Microscopic Tuning Fork
Learn how physicists overcame obstacles to watch phonons quantum jump in real-time.
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September 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Scientists Catch Sound Making a Quantum Jump With a Microscopic Tuning Fork www.discovermagazine.com/scientists-c...
Nature research paper: Quantum twisting microscopy of phonons in twisted bilayer graphene
https://go.nature.com/4ixtLng
https://go.nature.com/4ixtLng
Quantum twisting microscopy of phonons in twisted bilayer graphene - Nature
Generalization of a quantum twisting microscope to cryogenic temperatures in twisted bilayer graphene shows the ability to map phononic dispersions through inelastic momentum-conserving tunnelling and reveals an angle-dependent coupling between electrons and phonons.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nature research paper: Quantum twisting microscopy of phonons in twisted bilayer graphene
https://go.nature.com/4ixtLng
https://go.nature.com/4ixtLng
Des ondes sonores (appelées phonons) peuvent se trouver elles aussi en état de superposition quantique lorsqu’elles arrivent sur un séparateur de faisceau acoustique (une "barrière" que les phonons peuvent traverser ou sur lequel ils peuvent rebondir).
Source : www.sciencenews.org/article/quan...
Source : www.sciencenews.org/article/quan...
Physicists split bits of sound using quantum mechanics
New experiments put phonons — the tiniest bits of sound — into quantum mechanical superpositions and show they are as weird as other quantum entities.
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September 8, 2023 at 8:10 AM
Des ondes sonores (appelées phonons) peuvent se trouver elles aussi en état de superposition quantique lorsqu’elles arrivent sur un séparateur de faisceau acoustique (une "barrière" que les phonons peuvent traverser ou sur lequel ils peuvent rebondir).
Source : www.sciencenews.org/article/quan...
Source : www.sciencenews.org/article/quan...
Nature research paper: An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
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go.nature.com/4bztlN8
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser - Nature
A completely solid-state, single-chip, microwave-frequency surface acoustic wave phonon laser can generate coherent phonons from thermal noise or resonantly amplify injected phonons using only a direct current bias field.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Nature research paper: An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
go.nature.com/4bztlN8
go.nature.com/4bztlN8
that’s so me with phonons and rotons
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 AM
that’s so me with phonons and rotons
Someone appears to have made a laser out of sound and now my brain is broken. How the heck do you get phonons? It feels like making a house of out custard and having it behave like any other house.
March 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Someone appears to have made a laser out of sound and now my brain is broken. How the heck do you get phonons? It feels like making a house of out custard and having it behave like any other house.
Bragging about my group: new paper! Phonons are quantized vibrations in crystals. If you want to build sensitive detectors for particle-like dark matter, then understanding phonons in detector targets is important. 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Modeling athermal phonons in novel materials using the G4CMP simulation toolkit
Understanding phonon and charge propagation in superconducting devices plays an important role in both performing low-threshold dark matter searches a…
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December 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Bragging about my group: new paper! Phonons are quantized vibrations in crystals. If you want to build sensitive detectors for particle-like dark matter, then understanding phonons in detector targets is important. 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Smoking gun” evidence emerges for superconductivity in a hydride sulphide material thanks to measurements made under extremely high pressures. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/evidence-f...
physicsworld.com/a/evidence-f...
Evidence for a superconducting gap emerges in hydrogen sulphides – Physics World
Finding confirms that electron pairing in these high-temperature, high-pressure superconductors is mediated by phonons
physicsworld.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“Smoking gun” evidence emerges for superconductivity in a hydride sulphide material thanks to measurements made under extremely high pressures. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/evidence-f...
physicsworld.com/a/evidence-f...
Whoa, McGill researchers just created a quantum sound device by pushing electrons through crystals only a few atoms wide near absolute zero. It makes phonons in ways that break current theories. That's wild.
Scientists create quantum sound device that could transform communications
Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates precisely controlled bursts of sound-like particles, known as phonons. This is achieved by forcing electrons through
www.sciencedaily.com
July 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Whoa, McGill researchers just created a quantum sound device by pushing electrons through crystals only a few atoms wide near absolute zero. It makes phonons in ways that break current theories. That's wild.
Let me go home to my grains!! My phonons!!!
March 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Let me go home to my grains!! My phonons!!!
... And hell some things in physics are literally "this is a lie and we know it's a lie but the math is WAY EASIER if we treat it this way" (e.g., phonons)
April 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
... And hell some things in physics are literally "this is a lie and we know it's a lie but the math is WAY EASIER if we treat it this way" (e.g., phonons)
Also, I never highlighted Xixi Qin's work on chiral phonons in layered perovskites:
doi.org/10.1103/kp6b...
doi.org/10.1103/kp6b...
Chiral Phonon-Induced Spin Transport via Microscopic Barnett Effect
Chiral phonons, which are characterized by rotational atomic motion, offer a unique mechanism for transferring angular momentum from phonons to electron spins and other angular momentum carriers. In t...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Also, I never highlighted Xixi Qin's work on chiral phonons in layered perovskites:
doi.org/10.1103/kp6b...
doi.org/10.1103/kp6b...
Get those combos and field of phonons
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Get those combos and field of phonons
This fundamental difference changes how angular momentum is conserved when quantized excitations (like spinning lattice vibrations, or chiral phonons) interact.
September 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
This fundamental difference changes how angular momentum is conserved when quantized excitations (like spinning lattice vibrations, or chiral phonons) interact.
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Exploration de nouvelle voie pour améliorer la
thermoélectricité: renforcement de "phonon Drag" via le bain de phonons externe
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COMeuFs
Méthodologie RMN 17O pour rationaliser la capture du CO2 par les MOFs de nouvelles generation
- Le LGBTQIAphobe :
DragHunt
Exploration de nouvelle voie pour améliorer la
thermoélectricité: renforcement de "phonon Drag" via le bain de phonons externe
COMeuFs
Méthodologie RMN 17O pour rationaliser la capture du CO2 par les MOFs de nouvelles generation
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Exploration de nouvelle voie pour améliorer la
thermoélectricité: renforcement de "phonon Drag" via le bain de phonons externe
By examining the behaviour of NbSe₂ on graphene, a new study has provided new insights into how substrates influence superconductivity through moiré phonons.
Moiré phonons and superconductivity
By examining the behaviour of NbSe₂ on graphene, new insights into how substrates influence superconductivity through moiré phonons.
mappingignorance.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
By examining the behaviour of NbSe₂ on graphene, a new study has provided new insights into how substrates influence superconductivity through moiré phonons.
🧪💡🔉📢 We are happy to announce that Phonons 2025 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1 to 5 December 2025 at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Checkout the list of the prestigious plenary and invited speakers:
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February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🧪💡🔉📢 We are happy to announce that Phonons 2025 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1 to 5 December 2025 at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Checkout the list of the prestigious plenary and invited speakers:
phonons2025.com
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Researchers have translated spin signals into phonon signals that can be transmitted through materials. Because phonons travel undisturbed for longer distances than spins can, the conversion potentially extends the capabilities of spintronics. physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
December 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Researchers have translated spin signals into phonon signals that can be transmitted through materials. Because phonons travel undisturbed for longer distances than spins can, the conversion potentially extends the capabilities of spintronics. physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
1/3 Protein backbones resonate with acoustic waves below one terahertz. Molecular dynamics reveals how sub-THz phonons drive collective motion. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci
May 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
1/3 Protein backbones resonate with acoustic waves below one terahertz. Molecular dynamics reveals how sub-THz phonons drive collective motion. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci
I'm full of photons and phonons today I'll try to keep it cool try to keep it chill
June 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm full of photons and phonons today I'll try to keep it cool try to keep it chill
#RésultatScientifique 🔎 | La rectification des phonons : premiers pas vers une diode thermique
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La rectification des phonons : premiers pas vers une diode thermique
Porteurs de la chaleur, les phonons pourraient être contrôlés pour refroidir les composants et récupérer de l’énergie thermique.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Detection of acoustic phonons in carbon by Raman spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.26170
Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Andrey Katrusha, Weihua Peng, Jianguo Peng.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.26170
Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Andrey Katrusha, Weihua Peng, Jianguo Peng.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26170
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
September 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Detection of acoustic phonons in carbon by Raman spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.26170
Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Andrey Katrusha, Weihua Peng, Jianguo Peng.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.26170
Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Andrey Katrusha, Weihua Peng, Jianguo Peng.
Just out in Science Advances:
A unified ab initio theory of spin-phonon relaxation and decoherence uncovers fast dephasing in magnetic molecules
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A unified ab initio theory of spin-phonon relaxation and decoherence uncovers fast dephasing in magnetic molecules
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A unified ab initio theory of spin-phonon relaxation and decoherence uncovers fast dephasing in magnetic molecules
Phonons induce fast dephasing in magnetic molecules.
www.science.org
March 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Just out in Science Advances:
A unified ab initio theory of spin-phonon relaxation and decoherence uncovers fast dephasing in magnetic molecules
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A unified ab initio theory of spin-phonon relaxation and decoherence uncovers fast dephasing in magnetic molecules
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...