Spin- and Lattice Dynamics of Kagome Systems and Altermagnets

The project deals with the newly found material class of altermagnets and magnetic kagome systems, structures that behave two-dimensionally much alike van-der-Waals materials, but with broken time reversal symmetry due to magnetic ordering. The aim is to study the strong effects expected in these materials caused by the coupling of the lattice degrees of freedom to the spin, i.e. magnon-phonon coupling, chiral phonon formation and non-trivial topology of magnons.