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We theoretically investigate the collective excitation of multiple (sub)millimeter-sized ferromagnets mediated by waveguide photons. By the position of the magnets in the waveguide, the magnon-photon coupling can be tuned to be chiral,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Yu , Xiang Zhang , Sanchar Sharma , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The spontaneous emergence of chirality in crystalline solids has profound implications for electronic, optical, and topological properties, making the control of chiral phases a central challenge in materials design. Here, we investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Martin Gutierrez-Amigo , Claudia Felser , Ion Errea , Maia G. Vergniory

Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in novel polariton types, arising from directional,…

We show that a strained wire of a Weyl semimetal supports a new type of gapless excitation, the chiral sound wave (CSW). It is a longitudinal charge density wave analog to the chiral magnetic wave predicted in the quark-gluon plasma but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 M. N. Chernodub , María A. H. Vozmediano

Chiral nanostructures offer the ability to respond to the vector nature of a light beam at the nanoscale. While naturally chiral materials offer a path towards scalability, engineered structures offer a path to wavelength tunability through…

Chiral phonons have been proposed to be involved in various physical phenomena, yet the chirality of molecular normal modes has not been well defined mathematically. Here we examine two approaches for assigning and quantifying the chirality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Ethan Abraham , Abraham Nitzan

Hexagonal and kagome lattices exhibit extraordinary electronic properties. It is a natural consequence of additional discrete degree of freedom associated with a valley or the occurence of electronic flat-bands. Combination of both types of…

We introduce and theoretically analyze the concept of manipulating optical chirality via strong coupling of the optical modes of chiral nanostructures with excitonic transitions in molecular layers or semiconductors. With chirality being…

We present a microscopic theory of the inverse chiral phonon Zeeman effect in noncentrosymmetric crystals. Within micropolar elasticity, coupled translational displacements and microrotations give rise to intrinsically chiral phonons, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Jun-ichiro Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov , Masahiro Sato , G. N. Makarov , A. D. Lyakhov

Architectures based on waveguide quantum electrodynamics have emerged as promising candidates for quantum networks. In this paper, we analyze the propagation of single-photons in disordered many-atom waveguides. We pay special attention to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Imran M. Mirza , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

The interaction between intense light-matter not only promotes emerging applications in quantum and nonlinear optics but also facilitates changes in material properties. Plasmons can significantly enhance not only molecular chirality but…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-03 Nan Gao , Haoran Liu , Yurui Fang

It is shown that chiral plasmons, characterized by a longitudinal magnetic moment accompanying the longitudinal charge plasmon, lead to electromagnetic near-fields that are also chiral. For twisted bilayer graphene, we estimate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 T. Stauber , T. Low , G. Gómez-Santos

The presence of chirality in the main molecules of life may well be not just a structural artifact, but of pure biological advantage. The possibility of the existence of a phenomenon of a special mode of interaction, labeled as "chiral…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interesting and technologically important materials like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. C. Lubensky , A. B. Harris , Randall D. Kamien , Gu Yan

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…

Organic/inorganic interfaces formed by monolayer substrates and conjugated molecular adsorbates are attractive material platforms leveraging the modularity of organic compounds together with the long-range phenomena typical of condensed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-01 Hanen Hamdi , Jannis Krumland , Ana M. Valencia , Carlos-Andres Palma , Caterina Cocchi

Despite many of the applications of graphene rely on its uneven stiffness and high thermal conductivity, the mechanical properties of graphene, and in general of all 2D materials, are still elusive. The harmonic theory predicts a quadratic…

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures are rapidly emerging as ideal substrates for enantioselective sensing, chiral near-field engineering, and plasmon-assisted catalysis, owing to their exceptional sensitivity to structural handedness. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Vasil Saroka , Lorenzo Cupellini , Nicolò Maccaferri , Alessandro Fortunelli , Tommaso Giovannini

Chirality, an intrinsic handedness, is one of the most intriguing fundamental phenomena in nature. Materials composed of chiral molecules find broad applications in areas ranging from nonlinear optics and spintronics to biology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Yu. Tikhonov , S. Kondovych , J. Mangeri , M. Pavlenko , L. Baudry , A. Sené , A. Galda , S. Nakhmanson , O. Heinonen , A. Razumnaya , I. Luk'yanchuk , V. M. Vinokur

Asymmetric transmission - direction-selective control of electromagnetic transmission between two ports - is an important phenomenon typically exhibited by two-dimensional chiral systems. Here, we study this phenomenon in chiral plasmonic…