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The distinction between chiral, trivial helical, and topological helical edge modes can be effectively made using quantum noise measurements at finite temperatures. Quantum noise measurements consist of mainly two components. The first is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Sachiraj Mishra , Colin Benjamin

Circular dichroism (CD) sensing plays a pivotal role in probing molecular chirality in biomedical sciences. However, engineering superchiral electromagnetic fields that can reliably amplify the faint signatures of chiral analytes remains…

The chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) of pions is extended to include vector mesons as well as pertinent degrees of freedom. By counting the typical momentum scale of vector mesons as order of $Q$ and vector meson masses as of the order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Tae-Sun Park

Magnetic helices and skyrmions in noncentrosymmetric magnets are representative examples of chiral spin textures in solids. Their spin swirling direction, often termed as the magnetic helicity and defined as either left-handed or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 K. Karube , K. Shibata , J. S. White , T. Koretsune , X. Z. Yu , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , R. Arita , T. Arima , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

Two-terminal conductance quantization in the context of quantum Hall (QH) physics is intimately related to the current carried by a discrete number of chiral edge modes. Upon pinching off a QH bar, one may engineer setups where some modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Sourav Manna , Ankur Das , Yuval Gefen , Moshe Goldstein

We study second harmonic generation in centrosymmetric Weyl semimetal with broken time reversal symmetry. We calculate electric current density at the double frequency of the propagating electromagnetic field in the presence of applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

We consider the interaction potential between two chiral rod-like colloids which consist of a thin cylindrical backbone decorated with a helical charge distribution on the cylinder surface. For sufficiently slender coiled rods a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-17 H. H. Wensink , G. Jackson

Chirality, the lack of inversion symmetry, is a geometrical property critical to chemistry, biology and material sciences. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ chriality can ususally be characterized with four-point…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Haina Wang

Recent experiments on monolayers of spindle-like cells plated on adhesive stripe-shaped domains have provided a convincing demonstration that certain types of collective phenomena in epithelia are well described by active nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ludwig A. Hoffmann , Koen Schakenraad , Roeland M. H. Merks , Luca Giomi

Inducing chirality in optically and electronically active materials is interesting for applications in sensing and quantum information transmission. Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal chalcogenides (TMDs) possess excellent electronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-11 Ye Wang , Yiru Zhu , Han Yan , Yang Li , Yan Wang , Manish Chhowalla

The use of the absolute measure of local chirality is championed since it has a uniform distribution for randomly reshuffled chiral components so that any deviations from uniformity in the associated "X-distribution" are directly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-14 Andrei Alexandru , Terrence Draper , Ivan Horváth , Thomas Streuer

We consider the discriminatory interaction of a chiral molecule with circularly polarised modes inside a cavity. Starting from a generalised Jaynes--Cummings model that includes both electric and magnetic dipole couplings, we derive the…

In this methodology focused paper we scrutinize the application of the band-coherent Boltzmann equation approach to calculating the conductivity of chiral particles. As the ideal testing ground we use the two-band kinetic Hamiltonian with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Janik Kailasvuori , Bretislav Sopik , Maxim Trushin

Covariant density functional theory and three-dimensional tilted axis cranking are used to investigate multiple chirality in nuclear rotation for the first time in a fully self-consistent and microscopic way. Two distinct sets of chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-11 P. W. Zhao

Chirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery. We introduce here the description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , A. Lattanzi

Valley degrees of freedom in transition-metal dichalcogenides influence thoroughly electron-phonon coupling and its nonequilibrium dynamics. We conducted a first-principles study of the quantum kinetics of chiral phonons following…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Yiming Pan , Fabio Caruso

We introduce chiral-even and chiral-odd meson wave functions as vacuum-to-meson matrix elements of bilocal quark operators with well-defined (geometric) twist. Thereby, we achieve a Lorentz invariant classification of these distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Lazar

We report the generation of helical electromagnetic radiation in a microwave cavity resonator, achieved by introducing mirror asymmetry, i.e., chirality, through a controlled geometric twist of the conducting boundary conditions. The…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-20 E. C. I. Paterson , J. Bourhill , M. E. Tobar , M. Goryachev

The static quadrupole moments (SQMs) of nuclear chiral doublet bands are investigated for the first time taking the particle-hole configuration $\pi(1h_{11/2}) \otimes \nu(1h_{11/2})^{-1}$ with triaxial deformation parameters in the range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a phenomenon in which electron spins are polarized as they are transported through chiral molecules, and the spin polarization depends on the handedness of the chiral molecule. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nguyen Thanh Phuc