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The observation of spin-dependent transmission of electrons through chiral molecules has led to the discovery of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). The remarkably high efficiency of the spin polarizing effect has recently gained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Ashish Moharana , Yael Kapon , Fabian Kammerbauer , David Anthofer , Shira Yochelis , Mathias Kläui , Yossi Paltiel , Angela Wittmann

Chirality pervades multiple scientific domains-physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy-and profoundly influences their foundational principles. Recently, the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) phenomenon has captured significant…

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of…

Magnetic skyrmions are textures behaving as quasiparticles which are topologically different from other states. Their discovery in systems with broken inversion symmetry sparked the search for materials containing such magnetic phase at…

A chiral near field with a highly contorted electromagnetic field builds a bridge to match the chiral molecules and light wavelengths with large size differences. It significantly enhances the circular dichroism of chiral molecules and has…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-23 Li Hu , Zhiguang Sun , Yingdong Nie , Yingzhou Huang , Yurui Fang

Scalable quantum technologies require faithful conversion between matter qubits storing the quantum information and photonic qubits carrying the information in integrated circuits and waveguides. We demonstrate that the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 R. J. Coles , D. M. Price , J. E. Dixon , B. Royall , E. Clarke , A. M. Fox , P. Kok , M. S. Skolnick , M. N. Makhonin

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and chiral objects in condensed matter are often excited states protected by system's topology. The use of chiral topological excitations to carry information has been demonstrated, where the information is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Tae-Hwan Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Han Woong Yeom

Electrons which are slowly moving through chiral magnetic textures can effectively be described as if they where influenced by electromagnetic fields emerging from the real-space topology. This adiabatic viewpoint has been very successful…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-23 Fabian R. Lux , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Magnon spintronics is a prosperous field that promises beyond-CMOS technology based on elementary excitations of the magnetic order that act as information carriers for future computational architectures. Unidirectional propagation of spin…

Dipoles in triangular optical ladders constitute a flexible platform for the study of the interplay between geometric frustration and long-range anisotropic interactions, and in particular for the observation of the spontaneous onset of…

This paper presents a first-principle and global perspective of electromagnetic chirality. It follows for this purpose a bottom-up construction, from the description of chiral particles or metaparticles (microscopic scale), through the…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-05 Christophe Caloz , Ari Sihvola

Magnons in antiferromagnets can support both right-handed and left-handed chiralities, which shed a light on the chirality-based spintronics. Here we demonstrate the switching and reading of magnon chirality in an artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Yahui Liu , Zhengmeng Xu , Lin Liu , Kai Zhang , Yang Meng , Yuanwei Sun , Peng Gao , Hong-Wu Zhao , Qian Niu , J. Li

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

The discovery of the chiral induced spin selectivity effect has provided a novel tool to study how active physical and chemical mechanism may differ in chiral enantiomers, however, the origin of the effect itself is yet an open question. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

In a magnetic texture, the spin of a conduction electron is forced to be aligned to the localized moment. As a result, the topology of the magnetic texture affects the electron dynamics in nontrivial ways. A representative example is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yoichi Nii , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

Chiral spin textures are researched widely in condensed matter systems and show potential for spintronics and storage applications. Along with extensive condensed-matter studies of chiral spin textures, photonic counterparts of these…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Peng Shi , Luping Du , Mingjie Li , Xiaocong Yuan

Chiral surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be generated by linearly polarized light incident at the end of a nanowire, exciting a coherent superposition of three specific nanowire waveguide modes. Images of chiral SPPs on individual…

Chirality introduces intriguing topological, electronic, and spin-optronic properties to molecules and solids. In this work, we provide a quantitative metric for the degree of chirality in solids, independent of the type of system and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Andrew Grieder , Shihao Tu , Yuan Ping

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