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In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

In the realm of modern materials science and advanced electronics, ferroelectric materials have emerged as a subject of great intrigue and significance, chiefly due to their remarkable property of reversible spontaneous polarization. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Kai Kong , Qiang Wang , Yixuan Li , Yitong Liang

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…

Emergent functionalities of structural and topological defects in ferroelectric materials underpin an extremely broad spectrum of applications ranging from domain wall electronics to high dielectric and electromechanical responses. Many of…

Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interesting and technologically important materials like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. C. Lubensky , A. B. Harris , Randall D. Kamien , Gu Yan

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

We introduce and theoretically analyze the concept of manipulating optical chirality via strong coupling of the optical modes of chiral nanostructures with excitonic transitions in molecular layers or semiconductors. With chirality being…

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures that their thermal stability originates from the nontrivial topology in nature. Recently, a plethora of topological spin textures have been theoretically predicted or experimentally observed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yu Li , Yuzhe Zang , Runze Chen , Christoforos Moutafis

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures are rapidly emerging as ideal substrates for enantioselective sensing, chiral near-field engineering, and plasmon-assisted catalysis, owing to their exceptional sensitivity to structural handedness. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Vasil Saroka , Lorenzo Cupellini , Nicolò Maccaferri , Alessandro Fortunelli , Tommaso Giovannini

Skyrmionic textures are being extensively investigated due to the occurrence of novel topological magnetic phenomena and their promising applications in a new generation of spintronic devices that take advantage of the robust topological…

Polar chiral structures have recently attracted much interest within the scientific community, as they pave the way towards innovative device concepts similar to the developments achieved in nanomagnetism. Despite the growing interest, many…

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 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

Ferroelectricity, band topology, and superconductivity are respectively local, global, and macroscopic properties of quantum materials, and understanding their mutual couplings offers unique opportunities for exploring rich physics and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-22 Jianyong Chen , Ping Cui , Zhenyu Zhang

Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since electrical reading of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Imara Lima Fernandes , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

Two-dimensional van der Waals magnets hosting topological magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, show promise for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. Electrical control of these topological spin textures would enable novel…

Designing broadband enhanced chirality is of strong interest to the emerging fields of chiral chemistry and sensing, or to control the spin orbital momentum of photons in recently introduced nanophotonic chiral quantum and classical optical…

Topological defects play a key role in a variety of physical systems, ranging from high-energy to solid state physics. They yield fascinating emergent phenomena and serve as a bridge between the microspic and macroscopic world. A skyrmion…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Tsesses , E. Ostrovsky , K. Cohen , B. Gjonaj , N. Lindner , G. Bartal

Paradigmatic knotted solitons, Hopfions, that are characterized by topological Hopf invariant, are widely investigated in the diverse areas ranging from high energy physics, cosmology and astrophysics to biology, magneto- and hydrodynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Tikhonov , A. Razumnaya , V. M. Vinokur

Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nihad Abuawwad , Samir Lounis