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We study a crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment and chirality. The first mechanism acts as an effective torque that aligns the particle orientation with its velocity, while the second drives individual particles along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

A detailed analysis is given of the angular distribution of an charged particle moving along the arc of a circle. The areas of different angular distribution behavior are highlighted and studied.

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 S. E. Boychenko , V. B. Tlyachev

We analyze two simple model planar molecules: an ionic molecule with D3 symmetry and a covalent molecule with D6 symmetry. Both symmetries allow the existence of chiral molecular orbitals and normal modes that are coupled to each other in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ivan Pasqua , Gregorio Staffieri , Michele Fabrizio

Chirality is a recurrent theme in the study of biological systems, in which active processes are driven by the internal conversion of chemical energy into work. Bacterial flagella, acto-myosin filaments and microtubule bundles are active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-01 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

Chirality, handedness, is one of the most fundamental intriguing asymmetries in nature. By definition, chiral objects cannot be superimposed onto each other after mirror reflection operation. Numerous examples of chiral structures can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 See-Hun Yang

Chiral expansions of the two-pion exchange components of both two- and three-nucleon forces are reviewed and a discussion is made of the predicted pattern of hierarchies. The strength of the scalar-isoscalar central potential is found to be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. R. Robilotta

With the self-consistent three-dimensional cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (3d-cranked HFB) method, various types of rotational motion near the yrast line are investigated in an even-even nucleus in the $A\simeq 130$ mass region…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Makito Oi , Philip M. Walker

An overview of the ab initio no-core shell model is presented. Recent results for light nuclei obtained with the chiral two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions are highlighted. Cross section calculations of capture reactions important…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-11-20 Petr Navratil

We briefly review the structure of nucleon in the context of QCD, Constituent Quark Model and Chiral Quark Model.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Manmohan Gupta , Harleen Dahiya

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and fundamental in science, from particle physics to metamaterials.The most established technique of chiral discrimination - photoabsorption circular dichroism - relies on the magnetic properties of a…

Chirality, an intrinsic handedness, is one of the most intriguing fundamental phenomena in nature. Materials composed of chiral molecules find broad applications in areas ranging from nonlinear optics and spintronics to biology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Yu. Tikhonov , S. Kondovych , J. Mangeri , M. Pavlenko , L. Baudry , A. Sené , A. Galda , S. Nakhmanson , O. Heinonen , A. Razumnaya , I. Luk'yanchuk , V. M. Vinokur

The past two decades have witnessed tremendous progress in the microscopic description of atomic nuclei. The Topical Review `The Future of Nuclear Structure' aims at summarizing the current state-of-the-art microscopic calculations in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Luigi Coraggio , Saori Pastore , Carlo Barbieri

Vector spin chirality is one of the fundamental characteristics of complex magnets. For a one-dimensional spin-spiral state it can be interpreted as the handedness, or rotational sense of the spiral. Here, using spin-polarized scanning…

Total-Routhian-Surface calculations have been performed to investigate the shape evolutions of $A\sim80$ nuclei, $^{80-84}$Zr, $^{76-80}$Sr and $^{84,86}$Mo. Shape coexistences of spherical, prolate and oblate deformations have been found…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 S. J. Zheng , F. R. Xu , S. F. Shen , H. L. Liu , R. Wyss

We summarize the findings of our Working Group, which discussed progress in the understanding of Chiral Dynamics in the A=2, 3, and 4 systems over the last three years. We also identify key unresolved theoretical and experimental questions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 H. -W. Hammer , N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki , D. R. Phillips

We review recent progress in implementing high-precision chiral two- and three-body forces in nuclear many-body systems beyond light nuclei. We begin with applications to finite nuclei, which we study through the nuclear shell model and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 J. W. Holt , N. Kaiser , W. Weise

It is shown that there exists a dihedral acute triangulation of the three-dimensional cube. The method of constructing the acute triangulation is described, and symmetries of the triangulation are discussed.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Evan VanderZee , Anil N. Hirani , Vadim Zharnitsky , Damrong Guoy

We discuss the formation of quarkyonic chiral spirals in the presence of a magnetic field. The explicit breaking of the rotational symmetry by the external magnetic field gives rise to an additional chiral spiral that varies along the field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-05-22 Efrain J. Ferrer , Vivian de la Incera , Angel Sanchez

Nuclei under non-collective rotation with a large angular momentum above some threshold can assume a toroidal shape. In our previous work, we showed by using cranked Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach that even-even, N=Z, high-K, toroidal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-30 A. Staszczak , Cheuk-Yin Wong

Colloidal membranes, self assembled monolayers of aligned rod like molecules, offer a template for designing membranes with definite shapes and curvature, and possibly new functionalities in the future. Often the constituent rods, due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-31 Sk Ashif Akram , Arabinda Behera , Prerna Sharma , Anirban Sain