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Chirality is inherent to a broad range of systems, including in solid-state and wave physics. The precession (chiral motion) of electron spins in magnetic materials, forming spin waves, has various properties and many applications in…

This article aims at giving a general presentation of spintronics, an important field of research developing today along many new directions in physics of condensed matter. We tried to present simply the physical phenomena involved in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Albert Fert , Frédéric Nguyen van Dau

Topological semimetals in crystals with a chiral structure (which possess a handedness due to a lack of mirror and inversion symmetries) are expected to display numerous exotic physical phenomena, including fermionic excitations with large…

The spiral handedness of magnetic moments, referred to as chirality, gives rise to emergent electromagnetic phenomena in helimagnets. In insulating helimagnets, known as multiferroics, the cycloidal spin structure induces electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Hidetoshi Masuda , Yutaro Yanagisawa , Kazuki Ohishi , Yusuke Nambu , Yoichi Nii , Yoshinori Onose

We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic nanosystems and nanostructures. We discuss top-down fabricated structures that range from solid metallic nanostructures to groupings of metallic…

Mirror symmetry is among the most fundamental concepts of physics and its spontaneous breaking at the molecular level allows chiral molecules to exist in two enantiomers that are mirror images of each other. The majority of chiro-optical…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-29 Alessandro Ciattoni

Chirality refers to the property that an object and its mirror image cannot overlap each other by spatial rotation and translation, and can be found in various research fields. We here propose chiral chaos and construct a chiral chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Yun-Qiu Ge , Zhe Wang , Qian-Chuan Zhao , Jing Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

In condensed matter physics, a broad spectrum of physical characteristics, such as chirality, axiality, and polarity, arises as a direct consequence of the underlying symmetry of the system. We here theoretically investigate the effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Satoru Hayami , Rikuto Oiwa , Akane Inda

Chirality manifests across multiple scales, yielding unique phenomena that break mirror symmetry. In chiral materials, unexpectedly large spin-filtering or photogalvanic effects have been observed even in materials composed of light…

Chiral active particles are able to draw energy from the environment to self-propel in the form of rotation. We describe an experimental arrangement wherein chiral objects, spinners, floating on the surface of a vibrated fluid rotate due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-28 Nilgun Sungar , John Sharpe , Loic Ijzerman , Jack-William Barotta

The interplay of electrons with a chiral medium has a diverse impact across science and technology, influencing drug separation, chemical reactions, and electronic transport. In particular, such electronchirality interactions can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Anil Kumar Singh , Kevin Martin , Maurizio Mastropasqua Talamo , Axel Houssin , Nicolas Vanthuyne , Narcis Avarvari , Oren Tal

Chirality, a fundamental concept describing an object cannot superpose with its mirror image, is crucial in optics and photonics and leads to various exotic phenomena, such as circular dichroism, and optical activity. Recent findings reveal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-13 Shijie Kang , Haitao Li , Jiayu Fan , Jiusi Yu , Boyang Qu , Peng Chen , Xiaoxiao Wu

Chirality describes the asymmetry between an object and its mirror image and manifests itself in diverse functionalities across all scales of matter - from molecules and aggregates to thin films and bulk chiral materials. A particularly…

Chirality is probably the most mysterious among all symmetry transformations. Very readily broken in biological systems, it is practically absent in naturally occurring inorganic materials and is very challenging to create artificially.…

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

Artificial nanostructures enable fine control of electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale, a possibility that has recently been extended to the interaction between polarised light and chiral matter. The theoretical description of such…

It is shown here that a Kagom\'e magnet, with Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions causes non trivial topological and chiral magnetic properties. Chirality---that is, left or right handedness---is a very important concept in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-18 Manuel Pereiro , Dmitry Yudin , Jonathan Chico , Corina Etz , Olle Eriksson , Anders Bergman

Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with…

Chiral materials display a property called optical activity, which is the capability to interact differentially with left and right circularly polarised light. This leads to the ability to manipulate the polarisation state of light, which…

We introduce and attach an orbital chirality to off-center ions in crystals and consider its implications. Its relationship with the spin chirality of leptons and possibly anions is also discussed. The feature may bring new meaning to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-26 Mladen Georgiev