APS March Meeting 2026, Day 1
Douglas Natelson (noreply@blogger.com)
I hit a pretty random assortment of talks on my first day at the APS Global Physics Summit, after catching a very early flight to get to Denver. Here are a few highlights:
- My colleague Hanyu Zhu gave a nice talk about the coupling between chiral phonons (vibrational excitations of atomic motion that carry net orbital angular momentum) and their coupling to electronic spins. For example, chiral ionic motion can effectively generate enormous local magnetic fields (see here).
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