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The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

The origin of bio-homochirality is a subject of much debate. The emergence of chirality and life on earth is a break of symmetry to be compared with the breaks of symmetry in the evolution of the universe. Based on a perspective of…

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We derived an analytical formula for the optical force acting on a small anisotropic chiral particle. The behavior of chiral particles is qualitatively different from achiral particles due to new chirality dependent terms which couple…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kun Ding , Jack Ng , Lei Zhou , C. T. Chan

Directed motion up a concentration gradient is crucial for the survival and maintenance of numerous biological systems, such as sperms moving towards an egg during fertilization or ciliates moving towards a food source. In these systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Bhavesh Valecha , Hossein Vahid , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

In this paper, we investigate the effect of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) on the radical pair model of avian magnetoreception. We examine the impact of spin selectivity on the avian compass sensitivity. In this analysis, we also…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Yash Tiwari , Vishvendra Singh Poonia

Planarian is an intriguing model system wherein the effect of electric and magnetic fields can be studied on various biochemical pathways during cell morphogenesis. Recent experimental observations have demonstrated the non-trivial…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Yash Tiwari , Parul Raghuvanshi , Vishvendra Singh Poonia

In this work we manifest that an electrostatic disorder in conducting systems with broken time reversal symmetry universally leads to a chiral ordering of the electron gas giving rise to skyrmion-like textures in spatial distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

Current-induced spin magnetization (CISM) specific to chiral crystals is microscopically analyzed using multipole theory to identify the necessary hopping and spin-orbit couplings (SOCs). Tight-binding models capturing the essence of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Ryosuke Hirakida , Masaki Kato , Masao Ogata

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

Spin polarization in chiral molecules is a magnetic molecular response associated with electron transport and enantioselective bond polarization that occurs even in the absence of an external magnetic field. An unexpected finding by Santos…

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

The combination of semiconducting properties and synthetically tunable chirality in chiral metal halide semiconductors (CMHS) offer a compelling platform for room temperature control over electronic spin properties, leveraging effects such…

Spin-orbit coupling is of fundamental interest in both quantum optical and condensed matter systems alike. In this work, we show that optically induced electronic excitations in lattices of V-type atoms exhibit an emergent spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Jonah S. Peter , Stefan Ostermann , Susanne F. Yelin

Chiral systems exhibit unique properties traditionally linked to their asymmetric spatial arrangement. Recently, multiple laser pulses were shown to induce purely electronic chiral states without altering the nuclear configuration. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Torsha Moitra , Lukas Konecny , Marius Kadek , Ofer Neufeld , Angel Rubio , Michal Repisky

The practical applications of chiral discrimination are usually limited by the weak chiral response of enantiomers and the high complexity of detection methods. Here, we propose to use the C lines (i.e., lines of polarization singularities)…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-22 Shiqi Jia , Jie Peng , Yuqiong Cheng , Shubo Wang

Chirality is breaking of mirror symmetry in matter. In the fields of biology and chemistry, this is particularly important because some of the essential molecules in life such as amino acids and DNA have chirality. It is a long-standing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-04 N. Jiang , Y. Nii , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh , Y. Onose

Two-dimensional hexagonal and oblique lattices were investigated theoretically with the aim of observing differences in the spin expectation values between chiral and achiral systems. The spinresolved band structures were derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 N. K. Lewis , P. J. Durham , W. R. Flavell , E. A. Seddon

Chiral and axial materials offer platforms for intriguing phenomena, such as cross-correlated responses and chirality-induced spin selectivity. However, quantifying the properties of such materials has generally been considered challenging.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Tatsuya Miki , Hiroaki Ikeda , Michi-To Suzuki , Shintaro Hoshino

The current understanding of chirality suggests the existence of a connection between structure and angular momentum, including spin. This is particularly emphasised in the chiral induced spin selectivity effect, where chiral structures act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. Fransson