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Chirality refers to a geometric phenomenon in which objects are not superimposable on their mirror image. Structures made of nano-scale chiral elements can display chiroptical effects, such as dichroism for left- and right- handed…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-25 Behrooz Semnani , Jeremy Flannery , Rubayet Al Maruf , Michal Bajcsy

Chirality in condensed matter is now a topic of the utmost importance because of its significant role in the understanding and mastering of a large variety of new fundamental physicals mechanisms. Versatile experimental approaches, capable…

Chirality, either of light or matter, has proved to be very practical in biosensing and nanophotonics. However, the fundamental understanding of its temporal dynamics still needs to be discovered. A realistic setup for this are the…

In the partonic (or light-front) description of relativistic systems the electromagnetic form factors are expressed in terms of frame-independent charge and magnetization densities in transverse space. This formulation allows one to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Granados , C. Weiss

The computation of nucleon structure functions within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio chiral soliton model is outlined. After some technical remarks on the issue of regularization numerical results for the both unpolarized and polarized structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Herbert Weigel

We show that the combination of molecular chirality and phase-controlled driving can lead to rectification of vibrational energy transfer. We demonstrate this effect using classical models of (1) a single helical chain and (2) a more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jichen Feng , Ethan Abraham , Joseph E. Subotnik , Abraham Nitzan

The two-dimensional self-dual Chern--Simons equations are equivalent to the conditions for static, zero-energy solutions of the $(2+1)$-dimensional gauged nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with Chern--Simons matter-gauge dynamics. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerald Dunne , Roman Jackiw

N flavor QED in two dimensions is reduced to a quantum mechanics problem with N degrees of freedom for which the potential is determined by the ground state of the problem itself. The chiral condensate is determined at all values of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Hosotani

The covariant chiral kinetic equation (CCKE) is derived from the 4-dimensional Wigner function by an improved perturbative method under the static equilibrium conditions. The chiral kinetic equation in 3-dimensions can be obtained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Jian-hua Gao , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

Twisted bilayers of van der Waals materials have recently attracted great attention due to their tunable strongly correlated phenomena. Here, we investigate the chirality-specific physics in 3D moir\'e superlattices induced by Eshelby…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-25 Zhigang Song , Xiaotian Sun , Lin-Wang Wang

Chiral photonics opens new pathways to manipulate light-matter interactions and tailor the optical response of meta-surfaces and -materials by nanostructuring nontrivial patterns. Chirality of matter, such as that of molecules, and light,…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Oliver Mey , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Analytical and numerical methods are applied to principal chiral models on a two-dimensional lattice and their predictions are tested and compared. New techniques for the strong coupling expansion of SU(N) models are developed and applied…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-21 Paolo Rossi , Ettore Vicari

We analyze how chirality can generate pulling optical forces and left-handed torques by cross-coupling linear-to-angular momenta between the light field and the chiral object. In the dipolar regime, we reveal that such effects can emerge…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-10 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Cyriaque Genet

Molecular chirality is conventionally understood as space-inversion-symmetry breaking in the equilibrium structure of molecules. Less well known is that achiral molecules can be made chiral through extreme rotational excitation. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Alec Owens , Andrey Yachmenev , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jochen Küpper

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…

We construct integrable chiral cosmological models with two scalar fields and potentials represented in terms of hyperbolic functions. Using the conformal transformation of the metric and the corresponding models with induced gravity terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Vsevolod R. Ivanov , Sergey Yu. Vernov

Inducing chirality in optically and electronically active materials is interesting for applications in sensing and quantum information transmission. Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal chalcogenides (TMDs) possess excellent electronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-11 Ye Wang , Yiru Zhu , Han Yan , Yang Li , Yan Wang , Manish Chhowalla

The spin-dependent structure functions g_2 (x, Q^2) are investigated within the framework of the chiral quark soliton model. It turns out that the twist-3 part of g_2 (x, Q^2) gives nonnegligible contributions to the total distributions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Wakamatsu

We construct, to leading orders in the momentum expansion, an effective theory of a chiral $p_x + ip_y$ two-dimensional fermionic superfluid at zero temperature that is consistent with nonrelativistic general coordinate invariance. This…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-13 Carlos Hoyos , Sergej Moroz , Dam Thanh Son

We review the results of a phenomenological model for cold and dense nuclear matter exhibiting a chiral phase transition. The idea is to model the quark-hadron phase transition under neutron star conditions within a single model, but…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Eduardo S. Fraga , Rodrigo da Mata , Savvas Pitsinigkos , Andreas Schmitt