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Condensed matter systems with topological order and metamaterials with left-handed chirality have attracted recently extensive interests in the fields of physics and optics. So far the two fields are independent, and there is no work to…

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To a phenomenological core described by the Generalized Coherent State Model a set of interacting particles are coupled. Among the particle-core states one identifies a finite set which have the property that the angular momenta carried by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-21 A. A. Raduta , C. M. Raduta

Chirality refers to the property that an object and its mirror image cannot overlap each other by spatial rotation and translation, and can be found in various research fields. We here propose chiral chaos and construct a chiral chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Yun-Qiu Ge , Zhe Wang , Qian-Chuan Zhao , Jing Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

A methodology for the statistical mechanical analysis of polymeric chains under tension introduced previously is extended to include torque. The response of individual bonds between monomers or of entire groups of monomers to a combination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Aaron C. Meyer , Michael Karbach , Ping Lu , Gerhard Müller

Topology and chirality of fermionic quasiparticles have enabled exciting discoveries, including quantum anomalous Hall liquids and topological superconductivity. Recently, topological and chiral phonons emerge as new and fast-evolving…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-16 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami , Hu Miao

When an elastic tube reinforced with helical fibres is inflated, its ends rotate. In large deformations, the amount and chirality of rotation is highly non-trivial, as it depends on the choice of strain-energy density and the arrangements…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 L. Angela Mihai , Thomas E. Woolley , Alain Goriely

The chiral structure of liquid crystalline phases arises due to the intrinsic chirality of the constituent mesogens. While it is seemingly straightforward to quantify the macroscopic chirality by using, for instance, the cholesteric pitch…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Kamien

Since the prediction and observation of topological Weyl semimetals (chiral TSMs), there have been enormous efforts to characterize further condensed matter realizations of chiral fermions. These efforts were dramatically accelerated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Justin Schirmann , Adolfo G. Grushin , Benjamin J. Wieder

Chirality is breaking of mirror symmetry in matter. In the fields of biology and chemistry, this is particularly important because some of the essential molecules in life such as amino acids and DNA have chirality. It is a long-standing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-04 N. Jiang , Y. Nii , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh , Y. Onose

The current understanding of chirality suggests the existence of a connection between structure and angular momentum, including spin. This is particularly emphasised in the chiral induced spin selectivity effect, where chiral structures act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. Fransson

The description of the electron wavefunctions in atoms is generalized to the fractional Fourier series. This method introduces a continuous and infinite number of chirp basis sets with linear variation of the frequency to expand the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Edmanuel Torres , Rafael Torres

Mechanical properties of nucleic acids play an important role in many biological processes which often involve physical deformations of these molecules. At sufficiently long length scales (say above $\sim 20-30$ base pairs) the mechanics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-12 Midas Segers , Aderik Voorspoels , Takahiro Sakaue , Enrico Carlon

When a quantum field theory has a symmetry, global or local like in gauge theories, in the tree or classical approximation formal manipulations lead to believe that the symmetry can also be implemented in the full quantum theory, provided…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zinn-Justin

The scalar spin chirality is a three-body physical observable that plays an outstanding role both in classical magnetism, characterizing non-coplanar spin textures, and in quantum magnetism, as an order parameter for chiral spin liquids. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 L. I. Reascos , Bruno Murta , E. F. Galvão , J. Fernández-Rossier

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…

Liquid crystal mesophases of achiral molecules are normally achiral, yet in a few materials they spontaneously segregate and form right- and left-handed chiral domains. One mechanism that drives chiral segregation is molecular shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-16 Matthew J. Deutsch , Robin L. B. Selinger , Paul van der Schoot

In continuum mechanics, the non-centrosymmetric micropolar theory is usually used to capture the chirality inherent in materials. However when reduced to a two dimensional (2D) isotropic problem, the resulting model becomes non-chiral.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 X. N. Liu , G. L. Huang , G. K. Hu

The Weyl semimetal, due to a non-zero energy difference in the pair of Weyl nodes shows chiral magnetic effect(CME). This leads to a flow of dissipationless electric current along an applied magnetic field. Such a chiral magnetic effect in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Debanand Sa

Chiral phonons are the ones with nonzero polarization and can be observed only via a selective coupling with valley electrons and circularly polarized photons. In such process, a new physical quantity, i.e., pseudo-angular momentum (PAM),…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-24 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

Chiral induced spin selectivity is a phenomenon that has been attributed to chirality, spin-orbit interactions, and non-equilibrium conditions, while the role of electron exchange and correlations have been investigated only marginally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Fransson