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We provide a theoretical framework based on classical electromagnetism, to describe optical properties of Fabry-P\'erot cavities, filled with multilayered and linear chiral materials. We find a formal link between transfer-matrix,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-15 L. Mauro , J. Fregoni , J. Feist , R. Avriller

In quantum mechanics, each conserved quantity (e.g., energy, position, linear momentum and angular momentum) is associated with a Hermitian operator. Its expected value can then be determined by performing a measurement on the wavefunction.…

Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

This article gives an analysis of the behavior of polarizing grids and reflecting polarizers by solving Maxwell's equations, for arbitrary angles of incidence and grid rotation, for cases where the excitation is provided by an incident…

Phase control of parametric modulation in coupled oscillator networks enables sculpting of dynamical states with desired spatiotemporal symmetries. Symmetry-aware Floquet analysis successfully predicts such states in linear systems, but…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Scott Lambert , Elise Jaremko , Jayson Paulose

This paper presents a first-principle and global perspective of electromagnetic chirality. It follows for this purpose a bottom-up construction, from the description of chiral particles or metaparticles (microscopic scale), through the…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-05 Christophe Caloz , Ari Sihvola

Birefringence in ionized, magnetized media is usually measured as Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radiation. However, pulses propagating through regions with very large Faraday rotation measures (RMs) can split into circularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Akshay Suresh , James M. Cordes

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

Chiroptical effects, characterized by different optical responses for left- (LCP) and right- handed circularly polarized light (RCP), are powerful and valuable tools in optics with wide applications in polarization resolved imaging and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 Weimin Ye , Xiaodong Yuan , Chucai Guo , Jianfa Zhang , Biao Yang , Shuang Zhang

Optically active achiral metasurfaces offer a promising way to detect chiral molecules based on chiroptic methods. The combination of plasmonic enhanced circular dichroism and reversible optical activity would boost the sensitivity and…

Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with…

An oscillographic study of the Hall voltage with an unpolarized alternating current through a platinum sample revealed choral features of the Hall effect, which clearly demonstrate the presence of the spin Hall effect in metals with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

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

Recent advances in the physics of resonant optical metasurfaces allowed to realize the so-called maximum chirality of planar structures by engineering their geometric parameters. Here we employ bilayer membrane metasurfaces with a square…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-25 Brijesh Kumar , Ivan Toftul , Anshuman Kumar , Maxim Gorkunov , Yuri Kivshar

Accurate characterization of polarization dependent light matter interactions in nanostructured systems is paramount for the development of chiral metasurfaces. It is also often challenging, because multiple anisotropic mechanisms, such as…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Jeeban Kumar Nayak , Ebru Buhara , Olivier J. F. Martin

Chiral lattice modes are hybrid states arising from chiral plasmonic particles assembled in ordered arrays with opportune periodicity. These resonances exhibit dependence on excitation handedness, and their observation in plasmonic lattices…

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

The sensitivity of Circularly polarized X ray Resonant Magnetic Scattering (CXRMS) to chiral asymmetry has been demonstrated. The study was performed on a 2D array of Permalloy (Py) square nanomagnets of 700 nm lateral size arranged in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. Díaz , P. Gargiani , C. Quirós , C. Redondo , R. Morales , L. M. Álvarez-Prado , J. I. Martín , A. Scholl , S. Ferrer , M. Vélez , S. M. Valvidares

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

A fractal-like (Cantor-like) stratified structure of chiral and convenient isotropic layers is considered. Peculiarities of the wave localization, self-similarity, scalability and sequential splitting in the reflected field of both the…

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