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We investigate the geometric phase of an atom inside an adiabatic radio frequency (rf) potential created from a static magnetic field (B-field) and a time dependent rf field. The spatial motion of the atomic center of mass is shown to give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Zhang , L. You

We investigate the chiral electric separation effect, where an axial current is induced by an electric field in the presence of both vector and axial chemical potentials, in a strongly coupled plasma via the Sakai-Sugimoto model with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Shi Pu , Shang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang

The chiral vortical effect is a chiral anomaly induced transport phenomenon characterized by an axial current in a uniformly rotating chiral fluid. It is well-understood for Weyl fermions in high energy physics, but its realization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Swadeepan Nanda , Pavan Hosur

Circular dichroism and helical dichroism are intriguing chiroptical phenomena with broad applications in optical sensing and imaging. Here, we generalize one of the phenomena-helical dichroism-to acoustics. We show that a one-dimensional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Qing Tong , Shubo Wang

It is shown that a condensation transition involving a chiral order parameter can occur in itinerant helimagnets, in analogy to the transition between the isotropic phase and the phase known as blue fog or blue phase III in cholesteric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tewari , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

We propose a way to introduce the currents responsible for the Chiral Magnetic Effect, and similar phenomena, into the AdS/CFT description. Such currents are thought to occur in heavy ion collisions due to topologically non-trivial field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-08 Lionel Brits , James Charbonneau

It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term E.B with space and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

In chiral crystals, two types of phonon angular momenta have been introduced. One is crystal angular momentum (CAM) arising from the rotational or screw-rotational symmetry and the other is mechanical angular momentum (MAM) associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Akihito Kato , Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Jun-ichiro Kishine

In this work, we study the stationary behavior of an assembly of independent chiral active particles under confinement by employing an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. The chirality modeled by means of an effective torque…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The notion that phonons can carry pseudo-angular momentum has become popular in the last decade, with recent research efforts highlighting phonon chirality, Berry curvature of phonon band structure, and the phonon Hall effect. When a phonon…

We present a comprehensive study of current-driven dynamics, transformations, and instabilities of skyrmioniums in chiral magnetic films, considering both isolated objects and collective states forming skyrmionium-based meta-matter. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kaito Nakamura , Yuka Kotorii , Andrey O. Leonov

The topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of a non-trivial geometric spin arrangement in a magnetic metal, originating from a finite scalar spin chirality (SSC). The associated Berry phase is often a consequence of non-coplanar…

Chiral tunneling through a harmonically driven potential barrier in graphene monolayer is considered in this work. Since the quasiparticles in this system are chiral in nature, tunneling is highly anisotropic, we determine the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 M. Ahsan Zeb , K. Sabeeh , M. Tahir

Active movement is essential for the survival of microorganisms like bacteria, algae and unicellular parasites. In three dimensions, both swimming and gliding microorganisms often exhibit helical trajectories. One such case are malaria…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-09 Leon Lettermann , Falko Ziebert , Mirko Singer , Friedrich Frischknecht , Ulrich S. Schwarz

Dirac particles have two intrinsic degrees-of-freedom, helicity and chirality. While helicity is conserved in time, chirality is not constant under time evolution for massive particles, yielding the phenomenon of chiral oscillations. So…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Victor Bittencourt , Massimo Blasone , Gennaro Zanfardino

We study the interconversion between photons and phonons coupled via radiation pressure in artificial Dirac materials realized by a honeycomb array of optomechanical cells. In particular we analyze the chiral tunneling of (photon-phonon)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Christian Wurl , Holger Fehske

We calculate the electromagnetic current with a more realistic approach in the RHIC and LHC energy regions in the article. We take the partons formation time as the initial time of the magnetic field response of QGP medium. The maximum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Duan She , Sheng-Qin Feng , Yang Zhong , Zhong-Bao Yin

This work introduces the chiral memory effect on the celestial sphere that measures the permanent change of electromagnetic fields by spin-dependent processes in bulk. Unlike the conventional memory effect based on the permanent soft shift…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Azadeh Maleknejad

We show that the interplay between chiral tunneling and spin-momentum locking of helical surface states leads to spin amplification and filtering in a 3D Topological Insulator (TI). Chiral tunneling across a TI pn junction allows normally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

Coherent motion of electrons in a twisted quantum ring is considered to explore the effect of torsion inherent to the ring. Internal torsion of the ring composed of helical atomic configuration yields a non-trivial quantum phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hisao Taira , Hiroyuki Shima