The attractive part of the interaction in these cases arises from the induced effects of quantized lattice vibrations or phonons. In this Review, we begin with a primer on electron–phonon ...

A research team has discovered how to make a promising energy-harvesting material much more efficient—without relying on rare ...

It reports that some of the material's phonons, a term describing collective vibrations in atomic crystals, are naturally rotating in a certain direction. This property is known as chirality ...

Crystal lattice vibrations, called phonons, can also display chirality as has been shown in some two-dimensional structures. However, truly chiral phonons have never been observed in three ...

A team of engineers and materials scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder has recently discovered that these tiny thermal vibrations, otherwise known as ...

Physicists have now turned to quantum effects to split phonons, the smallest bits of sound, researchers report in the June 9 Science. It’s a breakthrough that mirrors the sort of quantum ...

Prof Andrew N Cleland from the University of Chicago explains his team’s complex experiments with quantum particles called phonons, and suggests their discoveries might pave the way for new ...

This is why physicists are wondering if they can use phonons as well. Photons are packets of light energy; similarly, phonons are packets of vibrational energy. So the question is: can we build a ...

An acoustic analogue of the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) has been demonstrated for the first time. Carried out by physicists in France, the experiment involves converting quantum fluctuations into ...

Similar to the photons that make up beams of light, indivisible quantum particles called phonons make up a beam of sound. These particles emerge from the collective motion of quadrillions of atoms ...

The fundamental properties of materials depend critically on their underlying particles—the flow of electrons governs electrical resistance, and atomic lattice vibrations, termed phonons ...