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Chiral Magnon Mixing by Symmetry-Breaking in Collinear Ferrimagnets
Author(s): Dhurba R. Jaishi, Tyler J. Slade, S. X. M. Riberolles, Bing Li, Tianxiong Han, D. M. Pajerowski, D. L. Abernathy, Barry Winn, Melissa Graves-Brook, B. G. Ueland, and R. J. McQueeney
Magnons in ferromagnets possess spin angular momentum defined by right-handed precession of the moment around the magnetization direction. In antiferromagnets with no net magnetization, left- and right-handed magnons are degenerate in the absence of an applied field. Ferrimagnets possess uncompensat… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046702] Published Mon Jul 20, 2026