Vibrational Angular Momentum in Molecules Driven by Dynamical Effects

ORAL

Abstract

The angular momentum of static vibrational modes in solids manifests, among others, at the Brillouin zone corners of non-centrosymmetric crystal lattices and in ionic crystals in presence of an external magnetic field.
In this work, we show that also in molecules, under certain conditions, the angular momentum of vibrational modes can be nonzero. In particular we enforce the dynamical scheme of linear response to assess the vibrational properties of molecules.
In this framework we prove that an intrinsic angular momentum can emerge in the optical modes of non-collinear magnetic clusters as a result of the electron-phonon interaction.
These vibrational modes are suitable for detection in polarized Raman spectroscopy.

*The authors acknowledge the support of the French Agence Nationale de
la Recherche (ANR) under references ANR-17-CE24-0030 and
ANR-19-CE09-0026.
The authors acknowledge support from European Union's Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 881603.

Presenters

  • Oliviero Bistoni

    • Sorbonne University, University of Trento

Authors

  • Oliviero Bistoni

    • Sorbonne University, University of Trento
  • Matteo Calandra

    • Universita di Trento, Povo, Italy; Graphene Labs, Fondazione Isituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, I-16163 Genova, Italy; Sorebonne Universite, CNRS, Institut des Nanos
    • Graphene Laboratories, Fonazione Isituto Italiano di Tecnologia, I-161613 Genova, Italy; Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy, Sorbonne University,
    • Graphene Laboratories, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, I-16163 Genova, Italy, Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy
  • Francesco Mauri

    • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    • Graphene Laboratories, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 1-16163 Genova, Italy; Dipartimento di Fiscia Universita di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy
    • Graphene Laboratories, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, I-16163 Genova, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy
    • Università di Roma "La Sapienza"