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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…

Truly chiral phonons are lattice eigenmodes that combine broken mirror symmetry with circular atomic motion. They can mediate angular-momentum-selective interactions in quantum materials, yet directly resolving both their chirality and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yuhan Wang , Yuxuan Wei , Li Huang , Chuanshan Tian

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…

Valley degrees of freedom in transition-metal dichalcogenides influence thoroughly electron-phonon coupling and its nonequilibrium dynamics. We conducted a first-principles study of the quantum kinetics of chiral phonons following…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Yiming Pan , Fabio Caruso

The plethora of recent discoveries in the field of topological electronic insulators has inspired a search for boson systems with similar properties. There are predictions that ferromagnets on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice may host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Phonons are quanta of lattice vibrations, and their modes (linear, circular, or stationary) are symmetry-determined. Circularly polarized phonons, possessing nonzero angular momentum (AM), have drawn widespread attention recently. Despite…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuai Zhang , Zhiheng Huang , Muchen Du , Tianping Ying , Luojun Du , Tiantian Zhang

Chiral phonons offer a route to transfer angular momentum without relying on magnetic order, but their electronic response in metals remains poorly understood from perspectives beyond spin-based scenarios. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 A. Pezo , A. Manchon , Y. Nii , K. Ando , T. Kato

At the 2D limit, hexagonal systems such as monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and graphene exhibit unique coupled spin and momentum-valley physics (valley pseudospin) owing to broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Tristan L Britt , Bradley J. Siwick

Chirality, handedness, is one of the most fundamental intriguing asymmetries in nature. By definition, chiral objects cannot be superimposed onto each other after mirror reflection operation. Numerous examples of chiral structures can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 See-Hun Yang

Chirality, the property of asymmetry, is of great importance in biological and physical phenomena. This prospective offers an overview of the emerging field of chiral bioinspired plasmonics and metamaterials, aiming to uncover nature's…

Chiral response is of tremendous importance to many fields, such as analytical chemistry, polarization manipulation and biological sensing. Here, a chiral metasurface based on rectangular holes is systematically investigated. The results…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Biyuan Wu , Mingjun Wang , Yasong Sun , Feng Wu , Zhangxing Shi , Xiaohu Wu

The new model of phonon transmission across the interface between two crystals is proposed featured by taking into account the mismatch of crystal lattices. It has been found that the mismatch of lattices results in phonon scattering at the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-22 Aleksandr Meilakhs

Chirality is an intriguing property of certain molecules, materials or artificial nanostructures, which allows them to interact with the spin angular momentum of the impinging light field. Due to their chiral geometry, they can distinguish…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Peter Banzer , Pawel Wozniak , Uwe Mick , Israel De Leon , Robert W. Boyd

This review focuses on the chirality observed in the excited states of the magnetic order, dielectrics, and conductors that hold transverse spins when they are evanescent. Even without any relativistic effect, the transverse spin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Tao Yu , Zhaochu Luo , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror-image structures, a peculiar fact given that the electronic energy spectra of the systems are identical. We propose that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Spiros S. Skourtis , David N. Beratan , Ron Naaman , Abraham Nitzan , David H. Waldeck

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

The chirality of chiral multifold fermions in reciprocal space is related to the chirality of the crystal lattice structure in real space. In this work, we propose a strategy to detect and identify opposite-chirality multifold fermions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-24 Yan Sun , Qiunan Xu , Yang Zhang , Congcong Le , Claudia Felser

The origin and function of chirality in DNA, proteins, and other building blocks of life represent a central question in biology. Observations of spin polarization and magnetization associated with electron transport through chiral…

Chirality is a fundamental symmetry concept describing discrete states, i.e., left-handed, right-handed, or achiral, and existing at disparate scales and in many categories of scientific fields. Even though symmetry breaking is…

Chirality is a pervasive property of matter that underpins many important phenomena across physics, chemistry and biology. Given its broad significance, the development of protocols for rational control of chirality in solid state systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-27 Z. Zeng , M. Först , M. Fechner , X. Deng , A. Cavalleri , P. G. Radaelli