Experimental observation of chiral phonons in monolayer WSe2
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Hanyu | |
dc.contributor.author | Yi, Jun | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Ming-yang | |
dc.contributor.author | Xiao, Jun | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Lifa | |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, Chih-Wen | |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, Sui | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaindl, Robert A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Lain-Jong | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Yuan | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Xiang | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-19T13:22:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-19T13:22:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-02-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Zhu, H., Yi, J., Li, M.-Y., Xiao, J., Zhang, L., Yang, C.-W., … Zhang, X. (2019). Experimental observation of chiral phonons in monolayer WSe2. Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXIII. doi:10.1117/12.2510760 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1117/12.2510760 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656524 | |
dc.description.abstract | Chirality characterizes an object that is not identical to its mirror image. In condensed matter physics, Fermions have been demonstrated to obtain chirality through structural and time-reversal symmetry breaking. These systems display unconventional electronic transport phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect and Weyl semimetals. However, for bosonic collective excitations in atomic lattices, chirality was only theoretically predicted and has never been observed. We experimentally show that phonons can exhibit intrinsic chirality in monolayer tungsten diselenide, whose lattice breaks the inversion symmetry and enables inequivalent electronic K and -K valley states. The time-reversal symmetry is also broken when we selectively excite the valley polarized holes by circularly polarized light. Brillouin-zone-boundary phonons are then optically created by the indirect infrared absorption through the hole-phonon interactions. The unidirectional intervalley transfer of holes ensures that only the phonon modes in one valley are excited. We found that such photons are chiral through the transient infrared circular dichroism, which proves the valley phonons responsible to the indirect absorption has non-zero pseudo-angular momentum. From the spectrum we further deduce the energy transferred to the phonons that agrees with both the first principle calculation and the double-resonance Raman spectroscopy. The chiral phonons have significant implications for electron-phonon coupling in solids, lattice-driven topological states, and energy efficient information processing. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under contract no. DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the van der Waals Heterostructures program (KCWF16) for sample preparation and theory and data analysis, and within the Subwavelength Metamaterials Program (KC12XZ) for optical design and measurement. R. A. K. was supported by DOE BES, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under contract no. DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the Ultrafast Materials Science program (KC2203) for mid-IR frequency conversion. J.Y. acknowledges a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) under grant no. 201606310094. L.Z. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 11574154). L.-J.L. acknowledges support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology through a Competitive Research Grant (CRG5) for monolayer WSe2 synthesis. All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and the supplementary materials. | |
dc.publisher | SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10916/2510760/Experimental-observation-of-chiral-phonons-in-monolayer-WSe2/10.1117/12.2510760.full | |
dc.rights | Archived with thanks to Proceedings of SPIE | |
dc.subject | Chirality | |
dc.subject | phonon | |
dc.subject | valley | |
dc.subject | transition metal dichalcogenide | |
dc.subject | time-reversal symmetry breaking | |
dc.subject | indirect absorption | |
dc.subject | zone-boundary | |
dc.subject | intervalence band transition | |
dc.title | Experimental observation of chiral phonons in monolayer WSe2 | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.contributor.department | Material Science and Engineering Program | |
dc.contributor.department | Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division | |
dc.conference.date | 2019-02-03 to 2019-02-06 | |
dc.conference.name | Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXIII 2019 | |
dc.conference.location | San Francisco, CA, USA | |
dc.eprint.version | Publisher's Version/PDF | |
dc.contributor.institution | Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China | |
dc.contributor.institution | Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA | |
dc.contributor.institution | President's Office, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China | |
kaust.person | Li, Ming-yang | |
kaust.person | Yang, Chih-Wen | |
kaust.person | Li, Lain-Jong | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-08-19T13:24:14Z | |
dc.date.published-online | 2019-02-28 | |
dc.date.published-print | 2019-02-27 |
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