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Relativistic magnon-phonon coupling produces zero-field chiral phonons with g-wave angular momentum in altermagnets such as CrSb.

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arxiv 2607.06792 v1 pith:VFWRQRYC submitted 2026-07-07 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Symmetry-Enforced Chiral Phonons in Altermagnets via Magnon-Phonon Coupling

Philipp Rieger , Markus Wei{\ss}enhofer , Sergiy Mankovsky , Peter M. Oppeneer This is my paper
classification cond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords altermagnetschiral phononsmagnon-phonon couplingphonon angular momentumspin-lattice couplingNernst effectBerry curvatureCrSb
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Conventional antiferromagnets cannot host chiral phonons at zero field because PT symmetry forces phonon angular momentum and Berry curvature to vanish everywhere. Altermagnets break PT while remaining fully compensated, so their magnons already carry an unconventional spin-split pattern. This paper shows that relativistic spin-lattice coupling hybridizes those magnons with ordinary phonons, transferring the altermagnetic g-wave symmetry directly onto the phonon angular momentum across the entire Brillouin zone. First-principles calculations for the prototype CrSb map the resulting magnon-polarons, the avoided crossings, and the finite Berry curvatures that generate anomalous spin and phonon-angular-momentum Nernst responses without any applied field. The result positions bulk altermagnets as a materials platform for zero-field spin caloritronics and chiral phononics.

Core claim

In the altermagnet CrSb, relativistic spin-lattice coupling hybridizes the altermagnetic magnon branches with phonons, opening gaps of up to 1.1 meV and imprinting a g-wave phonon angular momentum texture that reverses sign between adjacent 60-degree sectors of the Brillouin zone. The hybridized magnon-polarons therefore carry finite helicity (chiral phonons) at zero field and possess Berry curvatures that produce anomalous spin Nernst and phonon-angular-momentum Nernst coefficients, all while the net magnetization and the total equilibrium angular momentum remain zero.

What carries the argument

The first-order spin-lattice-coupling tensor (the displacement derivative of the exchange interactions) that generates the magnon-phonon vertices; after Holstein-Primakoff mapping and Colpa diagonalization these vertices produce hybridized magnon-polarons whose phonon angular momentum and generalized Berry curvatures are evaluated across the full zone.

Load-bearing premise

A first-order Taylor expansion of the magnetic exchange with respect to atomic displacements, together with the harmonic-phonon and linear Holstein-Primakoff approximations, is assumed to capture all of the hybridization, angular momentum, and Berry curvature.

What would settle it

Momentum-resolved measurements (Raman, X-ray, or inelastic neutron scattering) of phonon helicity in zero-field CrSb that fail to show the predicted g-wave sign reversals between the Gamma-L and Gamma-L-prime paths, or the absence of the calculated anomalous Nernst coefficients above ~100 K, would refute the central claim.

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If this is right

  • Bulk altermagnets can generate chiral phonons without net magnetization, external fields, or structural chirality.
  • Zero-field anomalous spin Nernst and phonon-angular-momentum Nernst transport become available in compensated collinear magnets.
  • The phonon angular momentum distribution itself becomes a phononic analogue of altermagnetism: g-wave anisotropy with exact global cancellation.
  • These materials are therefore candidates for zero-field spin-caloritronic and chiral-phononic devices.

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  • Nonlinear thermal transport could resolve the g-wave angular pattern that linear-response currents average to period-pi.
  • The same hybridization mechanism should operate in other g-wave or d-wave altermagnets and may be tunable by strain or light doping.
  • Momentum-resolved circular dichroism or torque magnetometry on CrSb could directly map the predicted sector-dependent phonon helicity.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript argues that PT-breaking altermagnets host zero-field chiral phonons because relativistic spin-lattice coupling hybridizes altermagnetic magnons with phonons. Using first-principles IFCs (VASP/phonopy), relativistic KKR exchange and SLC tensors, Holstein-Primakoff mapping, and Colpa diagonalization of the coupled Hamiltonian (Eq. 2), the authors compute magnon-polarons across the full BZ of CrSb. They show that the hybridized bands acquire a finite phonon angular momentum whose momentum-space texture is forced by the magnetic point group 6'/m'mm' into a g-wave pattern with four nodal planes, and that the associated Berry curvatures produce zero-field anomalous spin and PAM Nernst responses (Eqs. 4–5, Fig. 4). Total equilibrium PAM remains compensated until an external field is applied (Fig. 3).

Significance. If correct, the work supplies a symmetry-allowed route to chiral lattice dynamics and anomalous transverse spin/PAM transport in compensated magnets without net magnetization, applied field, or structural chirality. That is a concrete materials platform for zero-field spin caloritronics and chiral phononics. Strengths include a parameter-free first-principles pipeline (force-theorem SLC tensors, full-BZ Colpa diagonalization), an explicit group-theoretic derivation of the g-wave PAM texture under 6'/m'mm' (Table I), and clear separation of the nonrelativistic PAM Hall background from the SLC-activated spin Nernst signal. The distinction from minimal 2D toy models and from electron-phonon mechanisms is stated carefully.

major comments (2)
  1. The central existence claim rests on the linear-order SLC tensor J^{αβμ} (Eq. 1, final term) together with the Holstein-Primakoff + Colpa treatment of Eq. 2. While this is standard, the manuscript never quantifies the size of neglected higher-order magnetoelastic or anharmonic corrections relative to the reported 1.1 meV hybridization gaps. A short estimate (or a statement that such terms only renormalize gap sizes without restoring PT) would make the zero-field selection-rule argument more robust.
  2. Experimental accessibility is asserted in the conclusion but not demonstrated. The hybridization gaps open near ~11 meV and the spin Nernst coefficient is two orders of magnitude smaller than the PAM Nernst signal. A brief comparison of these energy and transport scales with existing inelastic neutron, Raman, or thermal-transport resolution on CrSb (or related altermagnets) is needed to substantiate the claim that bulk altermagnets are immediately useful for zero-field spin caloritronics.
minor comments (6)
  1. Supplemental Material is cited as “available at tbc” (Ref. [44]). The SM must be supplied and the citation completed before acceptance.
  2. Figure 1 caption and main text refer to “phonon helicity” while the color scale is defined only later; a one-sentence definition in the caption would help.
  3. Table I lists generators of 6'/m'mm' but does not explicitly state how the PAM Berry curvature Ω^{L_z}_{xy} transforms under C'_{6z}; adding that row (or a short note) would complete the symmetry table.
  4. The statement that conventional macroscopic magnetoelastic theories “inherently lack” the dynamic DMI-like term (paragraph after Eq. 2) is strong; a brief citation to the standard Kittel or Callen–Callen forms would clarify the contrast.
  5. In Fig. 4(c) the nonrelativistic PAM Nernst background is shown as dashed curves; stating the numerical ratio of SLC correction to background at 300 K in the text (currently only “~20 %”) would make the figure self-contained.
  6. Typographical: “altermagneticg-wave” (abstract) and “PT-breaking” spacing inconsistencies appear in a few places; a final proof-read is warranted.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: PAM, helicity, Berry curvatures and Nernst coefficients are computed from independent first-principles IFCs and SLC tensors; self-citations supply methods only.

full rationale

The derivation chain begins with independently computed inputs (VASP/phonopy IFCs for the dynamical matrix, fully relativistic KKR force-theorem exchange and SLC tensors J^{αβ} and J^{αβμ}). These enter the atomistic Hamiltonian (Eq. 1), are mapped via Holstein-Primakoff to the magnon-phonon Hamiltonian (Eq. 2), and are diagonalized by Colpa’s algorithm to obtain hybridized eigenstates. PAM expectation values L_{n,k}, helicity, Berry curvatures Ω and Nernst coefficients α are then evaluated on those eigenstates; none of the target observables is fitted or used as input. The g-wave pattern is a direct consequence of the known magnetic point group 6'/m'mm' acting on the computed L_k (Table I and Fig. 2), not a definitional tautology. Self-citations ([24], [50–52]) provide the SLC methodology and a prior ferromagnet demonstration; they do not supply the altermagnetic result or force the zero-field PAM texture. No free parameters are adjusted to the PAM or Nernst data, and no uniqueness theorem or ansatz is imported that collapses the prediction onto its premises. The calculation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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The calculation rests on standard harmonic lattice dynamics, Heisenberg exchange plus first-order spin-lattice coupling, Holstein-Primakoff bosons, and linear-response Berry-curvature formulas. No free parameters are fitted to the PAM or Nernst data; all magnetic and lattice parameters are obtained from first-principles codes. The only modeling choices are the truncation of the SLC expansion at linear order in displacement and the neglect of anharmonicity.

axioms (3)
  • domain assumption Harmonic lattice dynamics plus generalized Heisenberg exchange plus first-order spin-lattice coupling (Eq. 1) fully describe the hybridized spectrum.
    Standard atomistic spin-lattice model; higher-order magnetoelastic and anharmonic terms are omitted without quantitative error estimate.
  • standard math Holstein-Primakoff transformation and Colpa’s algorithm yield the correct bosonic eigenstates of the multi-sublattice collinear system.
    Textbook mapping for collinear magnets; validity assumed throughout the Brillouin zone.
  • domain assumption Linear-response Nernst coefficients are given by the generalized Berry curvature integral (Eqs. 4–5).
    Standard Kubo-type formula for bosonic quasiparticles; nonlinear transport that would resolve g-wave angular dependence is left for future work.

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Chiral phonons are attractive for spintronics applications, however, their zero-field generation in conventional antiferromagnets is forbidden by combined parity and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry. Here we demonstrate the emergence of chiral phonons in $\mathcal{PT}$-breaking altermagnetic systems at zero field arising from relativistic magnon-phonon coupling. Focusing on the prototypical altermagnet CrSb, we utilize first-principles methods to calculate the hybridized magnon-polarons across the complete Brillouin zone. We show that this coupling imprints an altermagnetic $g$-wave symmetry directly onto the phonon angular momentum. Furthermore, we demonstrate anomalous spin and phonon angular momentum Nernst responses arising from finite Berry curvatures. These findings establish that chiral lattice dynamics can arise in compensated magnetic ground states without requiring external fields, positioning bulk altermagnets as material candidates for zero-field spin caloritronics and chiral phononics.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.06792 by Markus Wei{\ss}enhofer, Peter M. Oppeneer, Philipp Rieger, Sergiy Mankovsky.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Coupled magnon-phonon bands in CrSb calcu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Momentum-space distribution of the PAM for an ex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Temperature dependence of the equilibrium phonon [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Berry curvatures and resulting anomalous transport [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗

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