{"id":243753,"date":"2026-09-08T01:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/reversible-electric-control-unlocks-persistent-chiral-phonon-states"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:23","slug":"reversible-electric-control-unlocks-persistent-chiral-phonon-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/reversible-electric-control-unlocks-persistent-chiral-phonon-states","title":{"rendered":"Reversible electric control unlocks persistent chiral phonon states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reversible-electric-control-unlocks-persistent-chiral-phonon-states3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atoms in a material are rarely still. They jiggle back and forth in collective lattice vibrations known as phonons. Their motion can also carry a rotational element: In 2023, scientists at PSI experimentally proved the existence of chiral phonons, which exhibit handedness depending on which way they rotate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the same team of researchers has shown that an applied electric field can control the handedness of these phonons. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-026-02737-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms in a material are rarely still. They jiggle back and forth in collective lattice vibrations known as phonons. Their motion can also carry a rotational element: In 2023, scientists at PSI experimentally proved the existence of chiral phonons, which exhibit handedness depending on which way they rotate. Now, the same team of researchers has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}