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Momentum-resolved spin-polarized bands are a key ingredient in many proposed spintronic devices, but their existence often relies on lattice commensurability or strong spin-orbit coupling. By a large-scale DFT calculation (up to 4212…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-13 Zhigang Song , Xiuying Zhang , Julian Klein , Jonathan Curtis , Frances M. Ross , Prineha Narang

The emergence of strong relativistic spin-orbit effects in low-dimensional systems provides a rich opportunity for exploring unconventional states of matter. Here, we present a route to realise tunable relativistic band structures based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 L. M. Martelo , Aires Ferreira

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers enable profound reconstructions of the electronic bandstructure, giving rise to correlated states with remarkable tunability. Extending this paradigm to van der Waals magnets, twisting creates…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have given rise to a number of emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron correlations. A lack of a simple way to characterize…

We suggest that electromagnetic chirality, generally displayed by 3D or 2D complex chiral structures, can occur in 1D patterned composites whose components are achiral. This feature is highly unexpected in a 1D system which is geometrically…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Rizza , Andrea Di Falco , Michael Scalora , Alessandro Ciattoni

Moir\'e superlattice-induced sub-bands in twisted van der Waals homo- and hetero-structures govern their optical and electrical properties, rendering additional degrees of freedom such as twist angle. Here, we demonstrate the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Medha Dandu , Garima Gupta , Pushkar Dasika , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kausik Majumdar

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.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 X. N. Liu , G. L. Huang , G. K. Hu

Recently discovered helical polar fluid adopts a spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) driven by polarization escape and conformational chirality. Ferroelectric nematic and smectic phases are intrinsically chiral in the ground state…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hiroya Nishikawa , Dennis Kwaria , Atsuko Nihonyanagi , Fumito Araoka

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

The non-linear generalization of the Hall effect has recently gained much attention, with a rapidly growing list of non-centrosymmetric materials that display higher-order Hall responses under time-reversal invariant conditions. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-26 Nesta Benno Joseph , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Awadhesh Narayan

Light interacts differently with left and right handed three dimensional chiral objects, like helices, and this leads to the phenomenon known as optical activity. Here, by applying a polarization tomography, we show experimentally, for the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Drezet , C. Genet , J. -Y. Laluet , T. W. Ebbesen

Using terahertz time domain spectroscopy we demonstrate tunable polarization rotation and circular dichroism in intrinsically nonchiral planar terahertz metamaterials without twofold rotational symmetry. The observed effect is due to…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-03 Ranjan Singh , Eric Plum , Weili Zhang , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Twisted bilayer graphene is a chiral system which has been recently shown to present circular dichroism. In this work we show that the origin of this optical activity is the rotation of the Dirac fermions' helicities in the top and bottom…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-18 E. Suarez Morell , Leonor Chico , Luis Brey

Chirality, a fundamental structural property of crystals, can induce many unique topological quantum phenomena. In kagome lattice, unconventional transports have been reported under tantalizing chiral charge order. Here, we show how by…

Van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin layers with rotational misalignments, such as twisted bilayer graphene, feature interesting structural moir\'e superlattices. Due to the quantum coupling between the twisted atomic layers,…

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a high F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an number and can be easily bent, much like a paper, making undulations a novel way to design distinct electronic phases. Through first-principles calculations, we reveal the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Xingfu Li , Sunny Gupta , Boris I. Yakobson

Materials with Berry curvature dipoles (BDs) support a non-Hermitian electro-optic (EO) effect that is investigated here for lasing at terahertz (THz) frequencies. Such a system is here conceived as a stack of low-symmetry 2D materials. We…

Twist between neighboring layers and variation of interlayer distance are two extra ways to control the physical properties of stacked two-dimensional van der Waals materials without alteration of chemical compositions or application of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-19 Li-Ya Qiao , Xiu-Cai Jiang , Ze Ruan , Yu-Zhong Zhang

The rotation of the plane of polarization of light passing through a non-magnetic material is known as natural optical activity or optical gyrotropy. The behavior of this effect in thin chiral conductors is of current interest. For example,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Yan-Qi Wang , Takahiro Morimoto , Joel E. Moore