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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

We investigate quantum transport in a two-dimensional electron system coupled to a chiral molecular potential, demonstrating how molecular chirality and orientation affect charge and spin transport properties. We propose a minimal model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ragheed Alhyder , Mikhail Lemeshko , Alberto Cappellaro

Magnetic effects on free electron systems have been studied extensively in the context of spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. Using a quantum field theory framework, we derive a similar relationship in the non-relativistic limit…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 P. Kurian

Chirality in shape and motility can evolve rapidly in microbes and cancer cells. To determine how chirality affects cell fitness, we developed a model of chiral growth in compact aggregates such as microbial colonies and solid tumors. Our…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-14 Ashish B. George , Kirill S. Korolev

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…

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

Chirality, or handedness, is a geometrical property denoting a lack of mirror symmetry. Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and is associated with the non-reciprocal interactions observed in complex systems ranging from biomolecules to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Jonah S. Peter , Stefan Ostermann , Susanne F. Yelin

Detailed account is given of the chirality scenario of experimental spin-glass transitions. In this scenario, the spin glass order of weakly anisotropic Heisenberg-like spin-glass magnets including canonical spin glasses are essentially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Hikaru Kawamura

Despite extensive research on chirality-driven spin selectivity, most studies have focused on static magnetic properties, while the influence of chirality on the dynamic magnetic response remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate how…

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

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 phases of matter, characterized by a definite handedness, abound in nature, ranging from the crystal structure of quartz to spiraling spin states in helical magnets. In $1T$-TiSe$_2$ a source of chirality has been proposed that…

We investigate the phenomenon of producing vibration-induced rotational motion in a cylinder filled with achiral rods and being vibrated by an external drive. The arrangement of the rods develops chirality as a result of the interaction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-29 Satyanu Bhadra , Shankar Ghosh , Shamik Gupta

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

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…

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, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to…

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

``Chirality'' is a multispin quantity representing the sense or the handedness of the noncollinear spin structures induced by spin frustration. Recent studies have revealed that the chirality often plays an important role in the ordering of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hikaru Kawamura

Spin selective transport is usually associated with spin-orbit interactions. However, these interactions are invariant under time-reversal symmetry, and the Onsager relations and Bardarson's theorem imply that such interactions cannot yield…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman