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Symmetry breaking together with strong spin-orbit interaction give rise to many exciting phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral spin textures, which are observed in magnetic systems lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Wanjun Jiang , Gong Chen , Kai Liu , Jiadong Zang , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

A theoretical investigation of the possible existence of the chiral polaron formation in graphene is reported. We present an analytical method to calculate the ground-state of the electron-phonon system within the framework of the Lee-Low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 B. S. Kandemir

Conventional linear optical activity effects are widely used for studying chiral materials. However, poor contrast and artifacts due to sample anisotropy limit the applicability of these methods. Here we demonstrate that nonlinear…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Mei-Yu Chen , Mikko J. Huttunen , Che-Wei Kan , Yen-Yin Lin , Cin-Wei Ye , Meng-Jer Wu , Hsiang-Lin Liu , Shi-Wei Chu

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 generalize the notion of dissipationless, topological Hall viscosity tensor to optical phonons in thin film Weyl semimetals. By using the strained Porphyrin thin film Weyl semimetal as a model example, we show how optical phonons can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shiva Hiedari , Alberto Cortijo , Reza Asgari

Designing metamaterials with the required band structure, topology and chirality using nano-fabrication technology revolutionises modern science and impacts daily life. The approach of this work is, however, different. We take a periodic…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Z. Fan , D. N. Puzyrev , D. V. Skryabin

Chiroptical techniques for detecting and characterizing the chirality of matter and artificial nanostructures are traditionally based on their interaction with chiral light, typically circularly-polarized fields propagating in free space.…

Electron exchange and correlations emerging from the coupling between ionic vibrations and electrons are addressed. Spin-dependent electron-phonon coupling originates from the spin-orbit interaction, and it is shown that such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Fransson

The influence of the specific geometry of three-dimensional confinement on electron- vibrational coupling in InAs/GaAs nanoclusters shaped as highly oblate ellipsoids of revolution is considered. Optical phonon relaxation processes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Hrach Nikoghosyan , Gor Nikoghosyan

Molecular chirality plays fundamental roles in biology. The chiral response of a molecule occurs at a specific spectral position, determined by its molecular structure. This fingerprint can be transferred to other spectral regions via the…

We demonstrate that the technique of abelian bosonization through duality transformations can be extended to gauging anomalous symmetries. The example of a Dirac fermion theory is first illustrated. This idea is then also applied to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Mohammad R. Garousi

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

We use continuum theory to show that chirality is a key thermodynamic control parameter for the aggregation of biopolymers: chirality produces a stable disperse phase of hexagonal bundles under moderately poor solvent conditions, as has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory M. Grason , Robijn F. Bruinsma

We theoretically investigated the chiral phonons of honeycomb-type bilayer Wigner crystals recently discovered in van der Waals structures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides. These chiral phonons can emerge under the inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Dingrui Yang , Lingyi Li , Na Zhang , Hongyi Yu

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…

In this work we propose a method for probing the chirality of nanoscale electromagnetic near fields utilizing the properties of a coherent superposition of free-electron vortex states in electron microscopes. Electron beams optically…

Recent attempts to detect the pion polarizability via analysis of $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\pi\pi$ measurements are examined. The connection between calculations based on dispersion relations and on chiral perturbation theory is established…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein

We present a detailed and self-contained theoretical study of polarons in two-dimensional (2D) polar materials, which extends the classical macroscopic theory of Fr\"ohlich polarons to the 2D case. The theory is fully determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 A. Kudlis , V. Shahnazaryan , I. V. Tokatly

The origin and function of chirality in DNA, proteins, and other building blocks of life represent a central question in biology. Observations of spin polarization and magnetization associated with electron transport through chiral…

Chiral crystals have recently garnered significant interest in condensed matter physics due to their unique electronic and optical properties. In this paper, we explore the connection between the chirality of crystal structures and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-13 Yong-Kun Wang , An-Dong Fan , Jin-Yang Li , Huaqing Huang , Si Li