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Angular Momentum Conservation and Phonon Spin in Magnetic Insulators (1912.06616v2)
Published 13 Dec 2019 in cond-mat.mes-hall
Abstract: We develop a microscopic theory of spin-lattice interactions in magnetic insulators, separating rigid-body rotations and the internal angular momentum, or spin, of the phonons, while conserving the total angular momentum. In the low-energy limit, the microscopic couplings are mapped onto experimentally accessible magnetoelastic constants. We show that the transient phonon spin contribution of the excited system can dominate over the magnon spin, leading to nontrivial Einstein-de Haas physics.
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