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Twisting two dissimilar monolayer semiconductors induces structural chirality that remains largely elusive in linear optics but becomes remarkably pronounced in the nonlinear regime. Here we demonstrate that MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers exhibit…

Non-Hermitian systems give rise to distinct topological phenomena, yet their manifestations at temporal interfaces characterized by abrupt changes in system parameters remain largely unex plored. Upon an abrupt alteration of the Hamiltonian…

Motivated by the recent experiment demonstration of stacking dependent interlayer magnetic interaction [T. Song et al., Nat. Mater. 18, 1298 (2019); T. Li et al., Nat. Mater. 18, 1303 (2019); W. Chen et al., Science 366, 983 (2019)], we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Feiping Xiao , Keqiu Chen , Qingjun Tong

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is at heart of chiral magnetism and causes emergence of rich non-collinear and unique topological spin textures in magnetic materials, including cycloids, helices, skyrmions and other. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Denis Sabani , Cihan Bacaksiz , Milorad V. Milosevic

This paper reviews the complex ordered structures induced by chirality in liquid crystals. In general, chirality favors a twist in the orientation of liquid-crystal molecules. In some cases, as in the cholesteric phase, this favored twist…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Randall D. Kamien , Jonathan V. Selinger

Chirality in the mid-infrared spectral range plays a crucial role across physical, chemical, and biological sciences, yet sources of chiral infrared light do not currently exist. Their development, using principles from the mature field of…

We study in this work the 2D dynamics of an experimental system of disk-shaped rotors, fluidized by turbulent upflow. Contrary to previous knowledge, our experiments show the same particle chiral geometry can produce flows with different…

The textures associated with a point defect centered in a circular domain of a thin film with XY-like ordering have been analyzed. The family of equilibrium textures, both stable and metastable, can be classified by a new radial topological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Kok-Kiong Loh , Isabelle Kraus , Robert B. Meyer

We study samples and a dipolar model of magnetic rods arranged on twisted polygonal clusters in terms of the twist angle. We find that the relative twist between polygons induces noncollinear chiral phases, ranging from flux vortex closure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Paula Mellado , Xavier Cazor , Andres Concha

The interface between two-dimensional (2D) crystals often forms a Moire superstructure that imposes a new periodicity, which is a key element in realizing complex electronic phases as evidenced in twisted bilayer graphene. A combined angle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Hayoon Im , Suji Im , Kyoo Kim , Ji-Eun Lee , Jinwoong Hwang , Sung-Kwan Mo , Choongyu Hwang

The origin of rigidity in disordered materials is an outstanding open problem in statistical physics. Previously, a class of 2D cellular models has been shown to undergo a rigidity transition controlled by a mechanical parameter that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-18 Matthias Merkel , Lisa Manning

Twistronics, which exploits moire modulation of lattice and electronic structures in twisted bilayers, has emerged as a powerful approach to engineer novel quantum states. Recent efforts have expanded beyond two dimensional van der Waals…

Structural superlubricity in van der Waals layered systems holds immense promise for diverse nanoscale contacts devices and energy-efficient applications. While all-direction structural superlubricity has been widely investigated, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Zichong Zhang , Shuze Zhu

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

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

Spatial control of topology is highly desirable for realizing tunable quantum functionalities in materials. Moir\'e superlattices formed by twisting van der Waals heterostructures provide a natural platform for spatially modulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Arjyama Bordoloi , Daniel Kaplan , Sobhit Singh

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…

A multi-fermion interaction model is investigated in a compact spacetime with non-trivial topology and in a weakly curved spacetime. Evaluating the effective potential in the leading order of the 1/N expansion, we show the phase boundary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masako Hayashi

We report on a non trivial dynamics of the interface between shear bands following a start-up of flow in a semi-dilute wormlike micellar system investigated using a combination of mechanical and optical measurements. During the building of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-03 S. Lerouge , M. A. Fardin , M. Argentina , G. Gregoire , O. Cardoso

In condensed matter physics, a broad spectrum of physical characteristics, such as chirality, axiality, and polarity, arises as a direct consequence of the underlying symmetry of the system. We here theoretically investigate the effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Satoru Hayami , Rikuto Oiwa , Akane Inda