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Numerical examination of the solution of the boundary--value problem of the reflection and transmission of a plane wave due to a slab of an electro--optic structurally chiral material (SCM) indicates that the exhibition of the circular…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lakhtakia , J. A. Reyes

It was recently conjectured that, in SU(3) gauge theories with fundamental quarks, valence spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking is equivalent to condensation of local dynamical chirality and appearance of chiral polarization scale…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrei Alexandru , Ivan Horváth

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

We study the correspondence between boundary spectrum of non-chiral topological orders on an open manifold $\mathcal{M}$ with gapped boundaries and the entanglement spectrum in the bulk of gapped topological orders on a closed manifold. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Zhu-Xi Luo , Brendan G. Pankovich , Yuting Hu , Yong-Shi Wu

Immersing a mobile impurity in a quantum many-body environment can reveal fundamental properties of the background medium, hence providing a powerful probe of quantum matter. This approach is particularly intriguing when considering media…

In this paper, we derive a general formula for the quantized fractional corner charge in two-dimensional C_n-symmetric higher-order topological insulators. We assume that the electronic states can be described by the Wannier functions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Ryo Takahashi , Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

We study a binary mixture of polar chiral (counterclockwise or clockwise) active particles in a two-dimensional box with periodic boundary conditions. Beside the excluded volume interactions between particles, particles are also subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-01 Bao-quan Ai , Zhi-gang Shao , Wei-rong Zhong

Chirality, nonreciprocity, and quantum correlations are at the center of a wide range of intriguing effects and applications across natural sciences and emerging quantum technologies. However, the direct link combining these three essential…

We provide an index-theoretic proof of the bulk-boundary correspondence for two- and three-dimensional second-order topological insulators that preserve inversion symmetry, which are modeled as rectangles and rectangular prism-shaped…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Shin Hayashi

The bulk-edge correspondence is a condensed matter theorem that relates the conductance of a Hall insulator in a half-plane to that of its (straight) boundary. In this work, we extend this result to domains with curved boundaries. Under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Alexis Drouot , Xiaowen Zhu

Bulk-edge correspondence is a cornerstone in topological physics, establishing a connection between the number of unidirectional edge modes in physical space and a Chern number, an integer that counts phase singularities of the eigenmodes…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-17 Yohei Onuki , Antoine Venaille , Pierre Delplace

A density wave in quark matter is discussed at finite temperature, which occurs along with the chiral condensation, and is described by a dual standing wave in scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates on the chiral circle. The mechanism is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 E. Nakano , T. Tatsumi

We rigorously yet concisely prove the bulk-edge correspondence for general $d$-dimensional ($d$D) topological insulators in complex Altland-Zirnbauer classes, which states that the bulk topological number equals to the edge-mode index.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Zixian Zhou , Liang-Liang Wan

A new, different kind of intensity correlation, denoted as polarization based intensity correlation, is proposed and investigated to study the correlation between different polarization components of polarization speckle, which has…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-20 Abhijit Roy , Maruthi M. Brundavanam

A theoretical framework for the calculation of shear and bulk viscosities of hadronic matter at finite temperature is presented. The framework is based on the quasi-particle picture. It allows for an arbitrary number of hadron species with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 P. Chakraborty , J. I. Kapusta

The bulk-boundary correspondence, a topic of intensive research interest over the past decades, is one of the quintessential ideas in the physics of topological quantum matter. Nevertheless, it has not been proven in all generality and has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Jun-Won Rhim , Jens H. Bardarson , Robert-Jan Slager

Motivated by the holographic correspondence, we study the boundary imprint of bulk lightcones in spacetimes with boundaries. These lightcones can be observed whenever a localized event takes place in the bulk. The associated boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Simon Caron-Huot , Joydeep Chakravarty , Keivan Namjou

We consider a generalized chiral Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (chGUE) based on a weak confining potential. We study the spectral correlations close to the origin in the thermodynamic limit. We show that for eigenvalues separated up to the mean…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia

We investigate the emission of circularly polarized photons from a magnetized quark-gluon plasma with nonzero quark-number and chiral charge chemical potentials. These chemical potentials qualitatively influence the differential emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Xinyang Wang , Igor A. Shovkovy

Chirality, or handedness, is a geometrical property denoting a lack of mirror symmetry. Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and is associated with the non-reciprocal interactions observed in complex systems ranging from biomolecules to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Jonah S. Peter , Stefan Ostermann , Susanne F. Yelin