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Four-dimensional imaging of charge migration is crucial to the understanding of several ubiquitous processes in nature. The present work focuses on imaging of charge migration in an oriented epoxypropane: a chiral molecule. A linearly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Sucharita Giri , Jean Christophe Tremblay , Gopal Dixit

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has garnered significant interest in the field of molecular spintronics due to its potential for creating spin-polarized electrons without the need for a magnet. Recent studies devoted to…

Temporally varying electromagnetic media have been extensively investigated recently to unveil new means for controlling light. However, spin-dependent phenomena in such media have not been explored thoroughly. Here, we reveal the existence…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 M. H. Mostafa , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

The linearized Einstein equation describing graviton propagation through a chiral medium appears to be helicity dependent. We analyze features of the corresponding spectrum in a collision-less regime above a flat background. In the long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrey Sadofyev , Srimoyee Sen

We propose a method to break the chiral symmetry of light in traveling wave resonators by coupling the optical modes to a lossy channel. Through the engineered dissipation, an indirect dissipative coupling between two oppositely propagating…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-03 Fang-Jie Shu , Chang-Ling Zou , Xu-Bo Zou , Lan Yang

Recently developed circularly polarized X-ray light sources can probe ultrafast chiral electronic and nuclear dynamics through spatially localized resonant core transitions. We present simulations of time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jérémy R. Rouxel , Markus Kowalewski , Shaul Mukamel

We analyze two simple model planar molecules: an ionic molecule with D3 symmetry and a covalent molecule with D6 symmetry. Both symmetries allow the existence of chiral molecular orbitals and normal modes that are coupled to each other in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ivan Pasqua , Gregorio Staffieri , Michele Fabrizio

Chiral and axial materials offer platforms for intriguing phenomena, such as cross-correlated responses and chirality-induced spin selectivity. However, quantifying the properties of such materials has generally been considered challenging.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Tatsuya Miki , Hiroaki Ikeda , Michi-To Suzuki , Shintaro Hoshino

Non-reciprocal devices, with one-way transport properties, form a key component for isolating and controlling light in photonic systems. Optomechanical systems have emerged as a potential platform for optical non-reciprocity, due to ability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Xunnong Xu , Jacob M. Taylor

Chiral anomaly modifies the scattering processes in chiral systems which can be computed using the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory that couples electrodynamics to the pseudoscalar field $\theta$ describing the topological charge induced be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Kirill Tuchin

Asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves is a well-established property of lossy, anisotropic, two-dimensionally chiral patterns. Here we show that asymmetric transmission can be observed for oblique incidence onto any lossy…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-18 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

Symmetry breaking caused by geometric fluctuations can enable processes that are otherwise forbidden. An example is a perylene bisimide dyad whose dipole moments are perpendicular to each other. F\"orster-type energy transfer is thus…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 N. Mann , P. Nalbach , S. Mukamel , M. Thorwart

The role of chirality in determining the spin dynamics of photoinduced electron transfer in donor-acceptor molecules remains an open question. Although chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been demonstrated in molecules bound to…

Strong coupling with circularly polarized vacuum fluctuations offers a viable route to manipulate molecular chirality. While experiments are advancing toward the realization of chiral cavities, a mean-field theoretical framework for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yassir El Moutaoukal , Rosario R. Riso , Andrea Bianchi , Henrik Koch

Chiral molecular structures enable time-odd pseudotensor that controls correlations between photoelectron spin and molecular orientation in photoionization (arXiv:2505.22433). We show that chiral structures also support time-even…

Recently there has been much interest in the chirality induced spin selectivity effect, whereby electron spin polarisation, which is dependent on the molecular chirality, is produced in electrode-molecule electron transfer processes.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Thomas P. Fay

The electronic Lorentz theory is employed to determine the electromagnetic response of planar split-ring metamaterials. Starting from the dynamics of individual free carriers, the effective permittivity tensor of the metamaterial is…

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…

Chirality is a concept that one object is not superimposable on its mirror image by translation and rotation. In particular, chiral plasmonics have been widely investigated due to their excellent optical chiral properties, and have led to…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-18 Yuqing Cheng , Mengtao Sun