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Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

Chirality, nonreciprocity, and quantum correlations are at the center of a wide range of intriguing effects and applications across natural sciences and emerging quantum technologies. However, the direct link combining these three essential…

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

There are many examples of driven and active matter systems containing particles that exhibit circular motion with different chiralities, such as swimming bacteria near surfaces or certain types of self-driven colloidal particles. Circular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We consider the two dimensional motion of a particle into a confining potential, subjected to Brownian forces, associated with two different temperatures on the orthogonal directions. Exact solutions are obtained for an asymmetric harmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Vincent Mancois , Bruno Marcos , Pascal Viot , David Wilkowski

Chiral optical effects are generally quantified along some specific incident directions of exciting waves (especially for extrinsic chiralities of achiral structures) or defined as direction-independent properties by averaging the responses…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-30 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

We numerically study the dynamics of two-dimensional blue phases in active chiral liquid crystals. We show that introducing contractile activity results in stabilised blue phases, while small extensile activity generates ordered but dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-27 Luuk Metselaar , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M. Yeomans

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

Anomalous Hall effect arising from non-trivial spin configuration (chirality) is studied based on the $s$-$d$ model. Considering a weak coupling case, the interaction is treated perturbatively. Scattering by normal impurities is included.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hikaru Kawamura

We study the dynamics of a circular passive inclusion, termed a torquer, in a bath of chiral active Brownian particles. Despite being geometrically symmetric and non-motile, the torquer exhibits persistent rotation due to spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-18 Abhra Puitandy , Shradha Mishra

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Fransson

Chirality is a pervasive form of symmetry that is intimately connected to the physical properties of solids, as well as the chemical and biological activity of molecular systems. However, its control with light is challenging, because…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Z. Zeng , M. Först , M. Fechner , M. Buzzi , E. Amuah , C. Putzke , P. J. W. Moll , D. Prabhakaran , P. Radaelli , A. Cavalleri

Chiral functionalities exhibited by systems lacking any mirror symmetry encompass natural optical activity, magnetochiral effect, diagonal current-induced magnetization, chirality-selective spin-polarized current of charged electrons or…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Sang-Wook Cheongand Fei-Ting Huang

We proceed with the construction of normalizable Dirac wave packets for treating chiral oscillations in the presence of an external magnetic field. Both chirality and helicity quantum numbers correspond to variables of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

The transport properties of a spherical active Brownian particle in a periodic potential under heavy damping are considered. The self-propelled particle is subjected to the asymmetric potential, detailed balance is lost and the particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 Arjun S R , Ronald Benjamin

The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Investigating the geometric effects resulting from the detailed behaviors of the confining potential, we consider square and circular confinements to constrain a particle to a space curve. We find a torsion-induced geometric potential and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Yan-Feng Chen

Polar active particles constitute a wide class of synthetic colloids that are able to propel along a preferential direction, given by their polar axis. Here, we demonstrate a generic self-phoretic mechanism that leads to their spontaneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Marco De Corato , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Giovanniantonio Natale

Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan