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Chirality in inorganic nanoparticles and nanostructures has gained increasing scientific interest, because of the possibility to tune their ability to interact differently with left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. In some…

The article seeks to formulate a synergetic law that is posited to be of common physicochemical and biological nature: an evolving system, possessing free energy and elements with chiral asymmetry may change the type of symmetry inside one…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-12-10 Vsevolod A. Tverdislov

It has been assumed that optical activity can be measured by illuminating alternatively a material with left- and right- handed circular polarized light and analyzing the differential response. This simple and intuitive approach is in…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-12 Oriol Arteaga

We introduce and theoretically analyze the concept of manipulating optical chirality via strong coupling of the optical modes of chiral nanostructures with excitonic transitions in molecular layers or semiconductors. With chirality being…

Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural world. Many biomolecules without inversion symmetry such as amino acids and sugars are chiral molecules. Measuring and controlling molecular chirality at a high precision down to the…

Do object part localization methods produce bilaterally symmetric results on mirror images? Surprisingly not, even though state of the art methods augment the training set with mirrored images. In this paper we take a closer look into this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Heng Yang , Ioannis Patras

Chiral optical effects are generally quantified along some specific incident directions of exciting waves (especially for extrinsic chiralities of achiral structures) or defined as direction-independent properties by averaging the responses…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-30 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

``Chirality'' is a multispin quantity representing the sense or the handedness of the noncollinear spin structures induced by spin frustration. Recent studies have revealed that the chirality often plays an important role in the ordering of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hikaru Kawamura

Chirality is a manifestation of the asymmetry inherent in nature. It has been defined as the symmetry breaking of the parity of static objects, and the definition was extended to dynamic motion such that true and false chiralities were…

Chiral crystals exhibit enantiomer-dependent transport phenomena that generate pure spin or orbital currents, while the handedness sensitivity of spin and orbital Hall conductivities (SHC/OHC) remains insufficiently understood. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Yuting Xiong , Yingjie Hu , Wei Ren , Heng Gao

A measure for the description of the chirality of triangles is introduced. The measure $X\delta$ is zero for triangles with at least one mirror axe, i.e. equilateral or isosceles triangles, and positive or negative for scalane, i.e. left or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 Haifeng Ma , Thomas Greber

Photons experience mirror asymmetry of macroscopic chiral media, as in circular dichroism and polarization rotation, since left and right handed circular polarizations differently couple with matter handedness. Conversely, free relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Alessandro Ciattoni

Chirality, the lack of inversion symmetry, is a geometrical property critical to chemistry, biology and material sciences. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ chriality can ususally be characterized with four-point…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Haina Wang

Geometric Langlands duality can be understood from statements of mirror symmetry that can be formulated in purely topological terms for an oriented two-manifold $C$. But understanding these statements is extremely difficult without picking…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Edward Witten

Up to now, in the literature of optical manipulation, optical force due to chirality usually coexists with the non-chiral force and the chiral force usually takes a very small portion of the total force. In this work, we investigate a case…

Electron chirality has been proposed as a microscopic quantity that characterizes electronic handedness, yet its underlying control parameter has not been clearly identified. Furthermore, its applicability is limited to systems with…

Crystals of the chemical elements manganese, tellurium, and selenium can show the effects of handedness. In order to sense the possible effects of a changing sense of chirality on the properties of samples from these elements, the potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-26 Aimo Winkelmann , Grzegorz Cios , Tomasz Tokarski , Piotr Bała , Yuri Grin , Ulrich Burkhardt

Chirality, the absence of mirror symmetry, is a fundamental molecular property with far-reaching consequences from chemistry to biology. Yet enantiosensitive optical responses are very weak. Here, we introduce a theoretical framework in…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 Yang-Cheng Ye , Panpan Zhang , Ajay Jha , Fulu Zheng , Hong-Guang Duan

General features of microscopic and macroscopic chiral structures can be discussed under the standard of orthogonal group theory. Configuration space of systems, not physical space, is taken into account. This change of perspective allows…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Salvatore Capozziello , Alessandra Lattanzi