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Chirality, either of light or matter, has proved to be very practical in biosensing and nanophotonics. However, the fundamental understanding of its temporal dynamics still needs to be discovered. A realistic setup for this are the…

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.…

The presence of chirality in the main molecules of life may well be not just a structural artifact, but of pure biological advantage. The possibility of the existence of a phenomenon of a special mode of interaction, labeled as "chiral…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

The introduction of topological invariants, ranging from insulators to metals, has provided new insights into the traditional classification of electronic states in condensed matter physics. A sudden change in the topological invariant at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Cheng Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen , Yong P. Chen , Faxian Xiu

The presence of topological defects in apolar chiral liquid crystals cause orientational distortions, leading to non-uniform strain. This non-uniform strain generates an electric polarization response due to the flexoelectric effect, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-06 Paul Leask

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

The demand for renewable and environmentally friendly energy source has attracted extensive research on high performance catalysts. Ferroelectrics which are a class of materials with a switchable polarization are the unique and promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-30 Weitong Ding , Xiao Tang , Wei Li , Liangzhi Kou , Lei Liu

The generation of chiral laser emission offers promising opportunities for modern photonic applications and the study of chiral light-mater interactions. Despite the great process made in recent years, the direct generation of chiral lasers…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-19 Hamim Rivy , Yu-Cheng Chen

The spin-orbit coupling field, an atomic magnetic field inside a Kramer's system, or discrete symmetries can create a topological torus in the Brillouin Zone and provide protected edge or surface states, which can contain relativistic…

Topological quantum materials have emerged as a frontier in condensed matter physics as well as in materials science, with intriguing electronic states that are robust to perturbations. Among the diverse structural motifs, kagome, chiral,…

Topological materials hosting multifold fermions and bosons have emerged as a rich platform for exploring unconventional quasiparticles and transport phenomena. In this work, we investigate the chiral crystal SiTc using first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Nagarjuna Patra , Ajit Singh Jhala , Poorva Singh

Chirality as internal degree of freedom of a mesoscopic domain wall inside a quasi-one-dimensional fixture can be controlled by spin-polarized current for ferro- as well as anti-ferro-magnetic domain walls. We show that the current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Oleksiy Kolezhuk , Roman Teslia , Ihor Buryak , Olena Gomonay

The interplay between ferroelectricity and band topology can give rise to a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Here, we map out the emergence of nontrivial corner states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics, and remarkably…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 Ning Mao , Runhan Li , Xiaorong Zou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Orbital angular momentum and torque transfer play central roles in a wide range of magnetic textures and devices including skyrmions and spin-torque electronics(1-4). Analogous topological structures are now also being explored in…

Ferroics and multiferroics are unique objects for fundamental physical research of complex nonlinear processes and phenomena, which occur in them in micro and nanoscale. Due to the possibility of their physical properties control by size…

This paper presents a first-principle and global perspective of electromagnetic chirality. It follows for this purpose a bottom-up construction, from the description of chiral particles or metaparticles (microscopic scale), through the…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-05 Christophe Caloz , Ari Sihvola

One of the most striking manifestations of electronic properties of topological insulators is the dependence of the photocurrent direction on the helicity of circularly polarized optical excitation. The helicity dependent photocurrents,…

Self-organisation into spatially modulated structures has different nature from phase transition into uniform states. Skyrmions and half-skyrmions (merons) are representatives of such structures and are utilised in designing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-18 Kyohei Takae , Takeshi Kawasaki

Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the foci of condensed matter physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of voltage-modulated scanning probe microscopy techniques, exemplified by…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-06 Rama K. Vasudevan , Nina Balke , Peter Maksymovych , Stephen Jesse , Sergei V. Kalinin

Skyrmions are topologically protected, two-dimensional, localized hedgehogs and whorls of spin. Originally invented as a concept in field theory for nuclear interactions, skyrmions are central to a wide range of phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Raju , A. Yagil , Anjan Soumyanarayanan , Anthony K. C. Tan , A. Almoalem , O. M. Auslaender , C. Panagopoulos