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In continuum mechanics, the non-centrosymmetric micropolar theory is usually used to capture the chirality inherent in materials. However when reduced to a two dimensional (2D) isotropic problem, the resulting model becomes non-chiral.…

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Low dimensional magnetic systems (such as spin-chain) are extensively studied due to their exotic magnetic properties. Here, we would like to address that such systems should also be interesting in the field of dielectric, ferroelectricity…

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of electron transmission from a straight waveguide to a helix with spin-orbit coupling. Transmission is found to be spin-selective and can lead to large spin polarizations of the itinerant electrons.…

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Chiral active materials are abundant in nature, including the cytoskeleton with attached motor proteins, rotary clusters of bacteria flagella, and self-spinning starfish embryos. These materials break both time reversal and mirror-image…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-17 Cheng-Tai Lee , Tom C. Lubensky , Tomer Markovich

We observe and model spin currents arising from chirality and effective spin-exchange interactions in a weakly interacting $^6$Li Fermi gas. Chirality is introduced by a static displacement between the center of the trapped atoms and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Camen A. Royse , J. E. Thomas

The spin Hall effect of light attracted enormous attention in the literature due to the ongoing progress in developing of new optically active materials and metamaterials with non-trivial spin-orbit interaction. Recently, it was shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-01 Xu-Guang Huang , Andrey V. Sadofyev

The spin activity in macromolecules such as DNA and oligopeptides, in the context of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) has been proposed to be due to the atomic Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) and the associated chiral symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Alexander López , Solmar Varela , Ernesto Medina

Recent activity in the area of chiroptical phenomena has been focused on the connection between structural asymmetry, electron spin configuration and light matter interactions in chiral semiconductors. In these systems, spin-splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Peter C. Sercel , Matthew P. Hautzinger , Ruyi Song , Volker Blum , Matthew C. Beard

An overview is given of experimental data on Heisenberg Spin Glass materials so as to make detailed comparisons with numerical results on model Heisenberg spin glasses, with particular reference to the chiral driven ordering transition…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 I. A Campbell , Dorothée C. M. C. Petit

We provide a detailed theoretical analysis of molecular rotational excitation by a chiral pulse train -- a sequence of linearly polarised pulses with the polarisation direction rotating from pulse to pulse by a controllable angle. Molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Johannes Floß , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Vibrated granular matter constitutes a useful system for studying the physics of active matter. Usually, self-propulsion is induced in grains through suitable asymmetry in the particle design. In this paper, we show that a symmetrical mini…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Shubham Sharma , Deepak Kumar

Chiral molecular junctions offer a promising platform for realizing chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), where spin filtering occurs without external magnetic fields. Here, we investigate spin transport in such junctions by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu Wang , Ruihao Bi , Wei Liu , Jiayue Han , Wenjie Dou

Polymeric particles are strong candidates for designing artificial materials capable of emulating the complex twisting-based functionality observed in biological systems. In this letter, we provide the first detailed investigation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-16 H. S. Ansell , D. S. Kim , R. D. Kamien , E. Katifori , T. Lopez-Leon

Anomalous Hall effect arising from non-trivial spin configuration (chirality) is studied based on the $s$-$d$ model. Considering a weak coupling case, the interaction is treated perturbatively. Scattering by normal impurities is included.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hikaru Kawamura

Atomistic spin models are of great value for predicting and understanding the magnetic properties of real materials, and extensions of the existing models open routes to new physics and potential applications. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

The issue of anomalous high magnetoresistance, beyond the Julli\`ere model, observed in nonmagnetic electrode-chiral molecular-ferromagnetic electrode devices has puzzled the community for a long time. Here, by considering the magnetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Tian-Yi Zhang , Yue Mao , Peng-Yi Liu , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

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

We present a microscopic theory of chirality-induced orbital selectivity (CIOS) in helical crystals, in which truly chiral phonons selectively transfer angular momentum to electronic orbital degrees of freedom. For a threefold helical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Tomomi Tateishi , Akihito Kato , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine

Chiral matter acting as a spin-selective device in biased electron transport is attracting attention for the quantum-technological design of miniaturized electronics. To date, however, experimental reports on spin selectivity are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Lorenz Meyer , Nicolas Néel , Jörg Kröger

We analyse the appearance of a mechanical torque that acts on a chiral molecule: a single-stranded DNA, in which the spin-orbit interaction is expected to induce a spin-selectivity effect. The mechanical torque is shown to appear as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 N. Sasao , H. Okada , Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony