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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…

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Magnetoresistance (MR) sensors provide cost-effective solutions for diverse industrial and consumer applications, including emerging fields such as internet-of-things (IoT), artificial intelligence and smart living. Commercially available…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-16 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Mengzhen Zhang , Ziyan Luo , Yihong Wu

Chiral magnetism is a fascinating quantum phenomena that has been found in low-dimensional magnetic materials. It is not only interesting for understanding the concept of chirality, but also important for potential applications in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-12 Bo Liu , Peng Zhang , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

The outlook for producing useful practical devices within the paradigm of magnonics rests on our ability to emit, control and detect coherent exchange spin waves on the nanoscale. Here, we argue that all these key functionalities can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 V. V. Kruglyak

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

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

Optical generation of complex spin textures is one of the most exciting challenges of modern spintronics. Here, we uncover a distinct physical mechanism for imprinting spin chirality into collinear magnets with short laser pulses. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Sumit Ghosh , Frank Freimuth , Olena Gomonay , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

In the last decade, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been attracting extensive interest. However, there still exists a large gap between experiments and quantitative theoretical results, and the microscopic mechanism of CISS,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Chenchen Wang , Zeng-Ren Liang , Xiao-Feng Chen , Ai-Min Guo , Guanghao Ji , Qing-Feng Sun , Yong Yan

The observation of chirality is ubiquitous in nature. Contrary to intuition, the population of opposite chiralities is surprisingly asymmetric at fundamental levels. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic weak force to the…

We report that spin polarization occurs over millimeters in polycrystalline bulk samples of chiral disilicide NbSi$_2$ and TaSi$_2$. As previously demonstrated in the experiments using single crystals of NbSi$_2$ and TaSi$_2$, electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-08 Hiroaki Shishido , Rei Sakai , Yuta Hosaka , Yoshihiko Togawa

Chiral interactions within magnetic layers stabilize the formation of noncollinear spin textures, which can be leveraged to design devices with tailored magnetization dynamics. Here, we introduce chiral spin frustration in which…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is at heart of chiral magnetism and causes emergence of rich non-collinear and unique topological spin textures in magnetic materials, including cycloids, helices, skyrmions and other. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Denis Sabani , Cihan Bacaksiz , Milorad V. Milosevic

We theoretically analyze spin filtering in two-terminal systems, induced by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), as a possible origin of the ``chirality-induced spin selectivity'' (CISS) effect observed experimentally in chiral molecules, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Takemitsu Kato , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

At a superconductor interface with a ferromagnetic insulator (FI), the FI acts to induce a local exchange field within the S layer, which in the presence of spin-orbit interaction promotes a phase modulated superconducting state. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 J. W. A. Robinson , A. V. Samokhvalov , A. I. Buzdin

Chiral spin textures, such as spin spirals and skyrmions, are key to advancing spintronics by enabling ultrathin, energy-efficient memory, and high-density data storage and processing. However, their realization remains hindered by the…

Optical chirality is central to many industrial photonic technologies including enantiomer identification, ellipsometry-based tomography and spin multiplexing in optical communication. However, a substantial chiral response requires a…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-11 Longqing Cong , Prakash Pitchappa , Nan Wang , Ranjan Singh

X ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS) was used to characterize the magnetization of 2D arrays of trilayer submicron magnets. The interpretation of the data required the understanding of the morphology of the magnets which was also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 J. Díaz , L. M. Álvarez-Prado , S. M. Valvidares , I. Montoya , C. Redondo , R. Morales , M. Vélez

We report on the possibility to detect hinge spin polarization in magnetic topological insulators by resistance measurements. By implementing a three-dimensional model of magnetic topological insulators into a multi-terminal device with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Stephan Roche

Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing chiral media is first studied via electronic wavepacket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yun Chen , Oded Hod , Joel Gersten , Abraham Nitzan