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Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

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

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

The spin-dependent propagation of electrons in helical nanowires is investigated. We show that the interplay of spin angular momentum and nanowire chirality, under spin-orbit interaction, lifts the symmetry between left and right…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-28 Diego A. Hoff , Luis G. C. Rego

Photoelectron circular dichroism results from one-photon ionization of chiral molecules by circularly polarized light and manifests itself in forward-backward asymmetry of electron emission in the direction orthogonal to the light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Andres F. Ordonez , Olga Smirnova

Resonant dielectric planar structures can interact selectively with light of particular helicity thus providing an attractive platform for chiral flat optics. The absence of mirror-symmetry planes defines geometric chirality, and it remains…

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

We examine the recently introduced measure of chirality of a monochromatic optical field [Y. Tang and A. E. Cohen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163901 (2010)] using the momentum (plane-wave) representation and helicity basis. Our analysis…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-21 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

In non-relativistic physics, the concepts of geometry and topology are usually applied to characterize spatial structures or structures in momentum space. We introduce the concept of temporal geometry, which encompasses the geometric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Andres F. Ordonez , Aycke Roos , Pablo M. Maier , Piero Decleva , David Ayuso , Olga Smirnova

Chirality is a structural property of molecules lacking mirror symmetry that has strong implications in diverse fields, ranging from life to materials sciences. Established spectroscopic methods that are sensitive to chirality, such as…

Optical nanofibers are waveguides known for their unique property to produce intense evanescent fields which have subwavelength transverse confinement easily extendable over thousands of wavelengths along the fiber axis. Moreover,…

We have investigated the relationship between the morphology of helical particles and the features of the cholesteric (N$^\ast $) phase that they form. Using an Onsager-like theory, applied to systems of hard helices, we show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-04 Elisa Frezza , Alberta Ferrarini , Hima Bindu Kolli , Achille Giacometti , Giorgio Cinacchi

Solids with topologically robust electronic states exhibit unusual electronic and optical transport properties that do not exist in other materials. A particularly interesting example is chiral charge pumping, the so-called chiral anomaly,…

Chiral circularly polarized (CP) light is central to many photonic technologies, from optical communication of spin information to novel display and imaging technologies. As such, there has been significant effort in the development of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Li Wan , Yizhou Liu , Matthew J. Fuchter , Binghai Yan

Circular dichroism is the differential rate of absorption of right- and left-handed circularly polarized light by chiral particles. Optical vortices which convey orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess a chirality associated with the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Kayn A. Forbes , Garth A. Jones

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

Directional radiation and scattering play an essential role in light manipulation for various applications in integrated nanophotonics, antenna and metasurface designs, quantum optics, etc. The most elemental system with this property is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuqiong Cheng , Kayode Adedotun Oyesina , Bo Xue , Dangyuan Lei , Alex M. H. Wong , Shubo Wang

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Light scattering from chiral plasmonic structures can create near fields with an asymmetry greater than the equivalent circularly polarised light, a property sometimes referred to as superchirality. These near fields with enhanced chiral…

We demonstrate that twisting one part of a chiral photonic structure about its helical axis produces a single circularly polarized localized mode that gives rise to an anomalous crossover in propagation. Up to a crossover thickness, this…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor I. Kopp , Azriel Z. Genack