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Chirality plays a crucial role in a broad range of processes including light-matter interactions in physics, chemistry and biology, which opens up new applications in nanophotonics, quantum technologies and photochemistry. Quantum…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yuanyang Xie , Alexey V. Krasavin , Anatoly V. Zayats

The differential response of chiral molecules to incident left- and right- handed circularly polarized light is used for sensing the handedness of molecules. Currently, significant effort is directed towards enhancing weak differential…

At the most fundamental level, the interaction between light and matter is manifested by the emission and absorption of single photons by single quantum emitters. Controlling light--matter interaction is the basis for diverse applications…

The theory to calculate circular dichroism (CD) of chiral molecules in a finite cluster with arbitrarily disposed objects has been developed by means of T-matrix method. The interactions between chiral molecules and nanostructures have been…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 Tong Wu , Jun Ren , Rongyao Wang , Xiangdong Zhang

It is shown theoretically that a nonchiral, two-dimensional array of metallic spheres exhibits optical activity as manifested in calculations of circular dichroism. The metallic spheres occupy the sites of a rectangular lattice and for…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vassilios Yannopapas

The chiral response from nanoantennas is useful for enabling advanced applications in areas such as optical communication, sensing, and imaging, due to its ability to selectively interact with circularly polarized light. Lattice resonances…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Vahid Karimi , Viktoriia Babicheva

The optical properties of nanoparticle clusters vary with the spatial arrangement of the constituent particles, but also the overall orientation of the cluster with respect to the incident light. This is particularly important in the…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-02 Atefeh Fazel-Najafabadi , Baptiste Auguié

Achiral molecules can be made temporarily chiral by excitation with electric fields, in the sense that an average over molecular orientations displays a net chiral signal [Tikhonov et al., Sci. Adv. 8, eade0311 (2022)]. Here, we go beyond…

Using molecular simulations and classical density functional theory, we study the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour of a series of bent rod-like mesogens with a controlled degree of chirality introduced through a twist at the centre of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Anna Ashkinazi , Hemani Chhabra , Anouar El Moumane , Maxime M. C. Tortora , Jonathan P. K. Doye

Chirality plays a crucial role in determining the structure of many systems in nature. Twisted or helical aggregates as a consequence of self-assembly can be seen in many biological and synthetic materials. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-27 Sayantan Mondal , Jayashree Saha

Resonance energy transfer between chiral molecules can be used to discriminate between different enantiomers. The transfer rate between chiral molecules consists of a non-discriminatory and discriminatory parts. We derive these two rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Janine Christine Franz , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , A. Salam

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

We present the characteristics of a simple waveguiding structure constructed by anisotropic birefringent crystal-metal-chiral medium, anisotropic-metal-chiral in short, and reveal the chiral-dependent dispersion and propagation properties…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-14 Qiang Zhang , Junqing Li , Rui Zhao , Xingguang Liu , Gebeyehu Dirbeba

Chiral light-matter interactions have traditionally been understood in terms of electric-magnetic dipolar interference driven by light with spin angular momentum. Here, we show that optical chirality can also originate from the orbital…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-13 Shun Hashiyada , An'an Wu , Yoshito Y. Tanaka

We show that the combination of molecular chirality and phase-controlled driving can lead to rectification of vibrational energy transfer. We demonstrate this effect using classical models of (1) a single helical chain and (2) a more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jichen Feng , Ethan Abraham , Joseph E. Subotnik , Abraham Nitzan

Plasmonic fields are usually considered non-chiral because of the transverse magnetic polarization of surface plasmon modes. We however show here that an optical lattice created from the intersection of two coherent surface plasmons…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Cyriaque Genet

Magnetic skyrmions are localized chiral spin textures, which offer great promise to store and process information at the nanoscale. In the presence of asymmetric exchange interactions, their chirality, which governs their dynamics, is…

We propose an approach to sensitively probe the chirality of molecules by measuring their coherent optical absorption spectra. It is shown that quantum dynamics of the cyclic three-level chiral molecules driven by appropriately-designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei

We provide a critical overview of the theory of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, i.e., phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to various electron processes. Based on…

The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent studies have demonstrated chiral fermions and their relevance…