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The presence of asymmetry between fermions of opposite handedness in plasmas of relativistic particles can lead to exponential growth of a helical magnetic field via a small-scale chiral dynamo instability known as the chiral magnetic…

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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

In this text we describe the role of optical chirality in the context of plasmonics. We clearly distinguish between 2D an 3D optical chirality and connect the problem with reciprocity and time symmetry. We compare our analysis with recent…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-10 Aurélien Drezet , Cyriaque Genet

The rotation of polarization occurs for light interacting with chiral materials. It requires the light states with opposite chiralities interact differently with the materials. We demonstrate analogous rotation of polarization also exists…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-03 Defu Hou , Shu Lin

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

The generation of chiral laser emission offers promising opportunities for modern photonic applications and the study of chiral light-mater interactions. Despite the great process made in recent years, the direct generation of chiral lasers…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-19 Hamim Rivy , Yu-Cheng Chen

As much as chiral metasurfaces are significant in stereochemistry and polarization control, tunable chiroptical response is important for their dynamic counterparts. A single metasurface device with invertible chiral states can selectively…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-07 Andrew S. Kim , Anjan Goswami , Mohammad Taghinejad , Wenshan Cai

Today we are witnessing the electric-dipole revolution in chiral measurements. Here we reflect on its lessons and outcomes, such as the perspective on chiral measurements using the complementary principles of "chiral reagent" and "chiral…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 David Ayuso , Andres F. Ordonez , Olga Smirnova

Here we highlight enantioselective optical gradient forces present in 3D structured optical vortex tweezing systems. One chiral force originates from the circular polarization of the light, while remarkably the other is independent of the…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-05 Kayn A Forbes , Dale Green

The integration of chirality into functional materials enables control of light-matter interactions beyond binary illumination (on/off). Conventional photoactuators rely on binary modulation, limiting them to unidirectional motion. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Wookjin Jung , Dongkyu Lee , Yonghee Lee , Ki Hyun Park , Jihyeon Yeom

Optical beams with a new and distinctive type of helicity have become the subject of much recent interest. While circularly polarised light comprises photons with spin angular momentum, these optically engineered 'twisted beams' (optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 David L. Andrews , Luciana C. Davila Romero , Mohamed Babiker

Chiral perturbation theory has to be substantially modified for the problem of nuclear forces. Loop effects dominate over tree level effects. The dominant behaviours in the scalar isoscalar channel and multi-nucleon forces are obtained in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramesh Anishetty , N. D. Hari Dass , H. S. Sharatchandra

It is still challenging to control dynamic self-organization patterns of self-propelled particles. Although varieties of patterns associated with chirality have been observed, essential control factors determining patterns remain unclear.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-21 Tetsuya Hiraiwa , Ryo Akiyama , Daisuke Inoue , Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir , Akira Kakugo

The theoretical explanation for the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, in which electrons' passage through a chiral system depends on their spin and the handedness of the system, remains vague. Although most experimental work was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Tapan Kumar Das , Francesco Tassinari , Ron Naaman , Jonas Fransson

We establish a general unified formulation which, using the optical theorem of electromagnetic helicity, shows that dichorism is a phenomenon arising in any scattering -or diffraction- process, elastic or not, of chiral electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-12 Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

We obtain the ground-state phase diagram of two spin chains consisting in a set two-level systems asymmetrically coupled to an XX chain through a chiral interaction. The interaction is parametrized by its magnitude and an angle defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Rafael D. Soares , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , Hugo Terças

For paraxial and non-paraxial light, numerous measures of electromagnetic attribute are expressible in terms of photon annihilation and creation. Accordingly, energy, angular momentum and chirality measures acquire a consistent…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Matt M. Coles , David L. Andrews

Maximizing the interaction between chiral light and chiral matter is pivotal for the advancement of technologies enabling optical detection that distinguishes between different handedness in chiral organic molecules. One strategy involves…

The dynamics of spherical particles driven along an interface between two immiscible fluids is investigated asymptotically. Under the assumptions of a pinned three-phase contact line and very different viscosities of the two fluids, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-01 Aaron Dörr , Steffen Hardt

The capability to distinguish the handedness of circularly polarized light is a well-known intrinsic property of a chiral nanostructure. It is a long-standing controversial debate, however, whether a chiral object can also sense the…