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We study chiral and nonreciprocal single-photon scattering in a chiral-giant-molecule waveguide-QED system. Here, the giant molecule consists of two coupled giant atoms, which interact with two linear waveguides, forming a four-port quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Juan Zhou , Xian-Li Yin , Jie-Qiao Liao

Quantum optics with giant atoms has provided a new paradigm to study photon scatterings. In this work, we investigate the nontrivial single-photon scattering properties of giant atoms being an effective platform to realize nonreciprocal and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Yao-Tong Chen , Lei Du , Lingzhen Guo , Zhihai Wang , Yan Zhang , Yong Li , Jin-Hui Wu

A new mechanism of photon emission in the quark-gluon plasma is proposed. Photon dispersion relation in the presence of the $CP$-odd topological regions generated by the chiral anomaly acquires an imaginary mass. It allows photon radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Kirill Tuchin

We study the pattern formation of chiral charges in the presence of reactions. We show that, in contrast to the original Turing's mechanism of pattern formation in diffusion-reaction systems, the interplay between chiral effects and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-02 Naoki Yamamoto

We theoretically demonstrate for the first time that a single free electron in circular/spiral motion emits twisted photons carrying well defined orbital angular momentum along the axis of the electron circulation, in adding to spin angular…

Circularly polarized light can be obtained by using either polarization conversion or structural chirality. Here we reveal a fundamentally unrelated mechanism of generating circularly polarized light using coupled nonequilibrium sources. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Chinmay Khandekar , Zubin Jacob

Electron transport properties through single conjugated molecules sandwiched between two non-superconducting electrodes are studied by the use of Green's function technique. Based on the tight-binding model, we do parametric calculations to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing chiral media is first studied via electronic wavepacket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yun Chen , Oded Hod , Joel Gersten , Abraham Nitzan

We develop an effective field-theoretical model for source-driven electromagnetic waves in a geometrically chiral optical medium described by a uniform axial torsion. Starting from the gauge-invariant electromagnetic field strength, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Edilberto O. Silva

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

Many atomic processes result in the emission of photons. Analysis of the properties of emitted photons, such as energy and angular distribution as well as polarization, is regarded as a powerful tool for gaining more insight into the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 V. A. Zaytsev , A. S. Surzhykov , V. M. Shabaev , Th. Stöhlker

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement induced by the presence of an external potential. For potentials having radial symmetry, the circular character of the trajectories induced by the chiral motion reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The Stern-Gerlach effect is well-known as spin-dependent splitting of a beam of atoms with magnetic moments by a magnetic-field gradient. Here, we show that an induced gauge potential may lead to a similar effect for chiral molecules. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 Yong Li , C. Bruder , C. P. Sun

Many-body systems with chiral fermions can exhibit novel transport phenomena that violate parity and time reversal symmetries, such as the chiral magnetic effect, the anomalous Hall effect, and the anomalous generation of charge. Based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Zebin Qiu , Gaoqing Cao , Xu-Guang Huang

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrated sources of coherent light carrying OAM are based on…

We investigate the radiation of optical angular momentum by a dipole gas under uniform magnetic field with an unpolarized source at its center. Conservation of angular momentum implies that the radiation of angular momentum results in a…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-03 R. Le Fournis , B. A. Van Tiggelen

We develop a mathematical formalism underlying the emergence of enantio-sensitive molecular orientation due to photoionization or photoexitation of chiral molecules. We consider geometric quantities such as the Berry connection and Berry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Aycke Roos , Pablo M. Maier , Andres F. Ordonez , Olga Smirnova

We consider the nonequilibrium quantum vibrations of a molecule clamped between two macroscopic leads in a current-carrying state at finite voltages. Our approach is based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Ryndyk , M. Hartung , G. Cuniberti

The migration of helical particles in viscous shear flows plays a crucial role in chiral particle sorting. Attaching a non-chiral head to a helical particle leads to a rheotactic torque inducing particle reorientation. This phenomenon is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-18 Andreas Zöttl , Francesca Tesser , Daiki Matsunaga , Justine Laurent , Olivia Du Roure , Anke Lindner

We present a scheme to synthesize a three-dimensional laser field that produces a chiral electron momentum distribution upon strong-field ionization of atoms. Our approach employs two orthogonally propagating two-color laser beams. This…