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Chirality, an intrinsic preference for a specific handedness, is a fundamental characteristic observed in nature. In magnetism, magnetic chirality arises from the anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in competition with the…

Chirality is not just a structural artifact in biology but it may provide for a genuine biological advantage. This is due to the phenomenon of chiral interaction (CI) which is described here for mechanical-chiral devices. The main…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gideon Gilat

Chirality in shape and motility can evolve rapidly in microbes and cancer cells. To determine how chirality affects cell fitness, we developed a model of chiral growth in compact aggregates such as microbial colonies and solid tumors. Our…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-14 Ashish B. George , Kirill S. Korolev

Chirality, a fundamental concept describing an object cannot superpose with its mirror image, is crucial in optics and photonics and leads to various exotic phenomena, such as circular dichroism, and optical activity. Recent findings reveal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-13 Shijie Kang , Haitao Li , Jiayu Fan , Jiusi Yu , Boyang Qu , Peng Chen , Xiaoxiao Wu

``Chirality'' is a multispin quantity representing the sense or the handedness of the noncollinear spin structures induced by spin frustration. Recent studies have revealed that the chirality often plays an important role in the ordering of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hikaru Kawamura

Optical chirality density is widely used as a scalar measure of the chiral properties of electromagnetic fields and their interaction with matter. However, in anisotropic and structured media, a single scalar quantity is generally…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ilia Smagin , Sergey Dyakov

In this short article, we overview a concept of electronic toroidal multipoles, and their ordering with associated physical properties in non-magnetic and magnetic materials. The toroidal multipoles are introduced as microscopic electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Hiroaki Kusunose , Satoru Hayami

Here, we present an exploratory study of the potential applications of electrically biased materials that possess a nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian electromagnetic response analogous to the electronic response of field-effect transistors.…

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and chiral objects in condensed matter are often excited states protected by system's topology. The use of chiral topological excitations to carry information has been demonstrated, where the information is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Tae-Hwan Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Han Woong Yeom

Chirality, or handedness, is a topic that is common in biology and chemistry, yet is rarely discussed in physics courses. We provide a way of introducing the topic in classical physics, and demonstrate the merits of its inclusion - such as…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Chris L. Lin

Chirality is an inherent characteristics of some objects in nature. In magnetism chiral magnetic textures can be formed in systems with broken inversion symmetry and due to an antisymmetric magnetic interaction, known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Khalil Zakeri , Albrecht von Faber , Sergiy Mankovsky , Hubert Ebert

We analyze how chirality can generate pulling optical forces and left-handed torques by cross-coupling linear-to-angular momenta between the light field and the chiral object. In the dipolar regime, we reveal that such effects can emerge…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-10 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Cyriaque Genet

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 chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has garnered significant interest in the field of molecular spintronics due to its potential for creating spin-polarized electrons without the need for a magnet. Recent studies devoted to…

We calculate optical forces and torques exerted on a chiral dipole by chiral light fields and reveal genuinely chiral forces in combining the chiral contents of both light field and dipolar matter. Here, the optical chirality is…

The Modern Theory of Polarization, which rigorously defines the spontaneous electric polarization of a periodic solid and provides a recipe for its computation in electronic structure codes, transformed our understanding of ferroelectricity…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-23 Nicola A. Spaldin

Microscopic origin of chirality and possible electric-field induced rotation and rotation-field induced electric polarization are investigated. By building up a realistic tight-binding model for elemental Te crystal in terms of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-18 Rikuto Oiwa , Hiroaki Kusunose

Chirality is a universal feature in nature, as observed in fermion interactions and DNA helicity. Much attention has been given to chiral interactions of light, not only regarding its physical interpretation but also focusing on intriguing…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Sunkyu Yu , Hyun Sung Park , Xianji Piao , Bumki Min , Namkyoo Park

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…