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Effects of a third rank permeability term in chiral solids are studied. Fluid flow through such materials acquires vorticity upon emergence from the material. Materials of interest include chiral surface lattices such as the gyroid, chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-28 Roderic S. Lakes

In continuum mechanics, the non-centrosymmetric micropolar theory is usually used to capture the chirality inherent in materials. However when reduced to a two dimensional (2D) isotropic problem, the resulting model becomes non-chiral.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 X. N. Liu , G. L. Huang , G. K. Hu

Chiral objects rotate when placed in a collimated flow or wind. We exploit this hydrodynamic intuition to construct a tensorial chirality measure for rigid filaments and curves. This tensor is trace-free, so if a curve has a right-handed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-23 Giovanni Dietler , Robert Kusner , Wöden Kusner , Eric Rawdon , Piotr Szymczak

We demonstrate a general route to making active, odd elastic solids from passive chiral elements that can act as sources of mechanical work by violating static equilibrium without internal sources of energy or momentum. We further…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Mohamed Shaat , Harold S. Park

Prior studies have revealed that nonzero odd viscosity is an essential property for chiral active fluids. Here we report that such an odd viscosity also exists in suspensions of non-active or non-externally-driven but chirally-shaped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-25 Zhiyuan Zhao , Mingcheng Yang , Shigeyuki Komura , Ryohei Seto

We consider a multilayered metamaterial composed of anisotropic layers with in-plane anisotropy axes periodically rotated with respect to each other. Due to the breaking of inversion symmetry, the structure develops an effective chirality.…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-30 Konstantin Baranov , Dmitry Vagin , Maxim A. Gorlach

Chiral active fluids are materials composed of self-spinning rotors that continuously inject energy and angular momentum at the microscale. Out-of-equilibrium fluids with active-rotor constituents have been experimentally realized using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Debarghya Banerjee , Anton Souslov , Alexander G. Abanov , Vincenzo Vitelli

Odd viscosity couples stress to strain rate in a dissipationless way. It has been studied in plasmas under magnetic fields, superfluid ${\rm He}^3$, quantum-Hall fluids, and recently in the context of chiral active matter. In most of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Tomer Markovich , Tom C. Lubensky

We show that for an anomalous fluid carrying dissipationless chiral magnetic and/or vortical currents there is a frame in which a stationary obstacle experiences no drag, but energy and charge currents do not vanish, resembling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Mikhail A. Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

Chiral fluids - such as fluids under rotation or a magnetic field as well as synthetic and biological active fluids - flow in a different way than ordinary ones. Due to symmetries broken at the microscopic level, chiral fluids may have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Tali Khain , Michel Fruchart , Colin Scheibner , Thomas A. Witten , Vincenzo Vitelli

We demonstrate experimentally and numerically that nonplanar chiral metamaterials give giant optical activity, circular dichroism, and negative refractive index. The transmission, reflection, and the retrieval results of the experiments…

Optics · Physics 2009-07-02 Bingnan Wang , Jiangfeng Zhou , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

Chiral active materials display odd dynamical effects in both their elastic and viscous responses. We show that the most symmetric mesophase with two-dimensional odd elasticity in three dimensions is chiral, polar and columnar, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

We propose minimal transport experiments in the coherent regime that can probe the chirality of twisted moir\'e structures. We show that only with a third contact and in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field (or other time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dario A. Bahamon , Guillermo Gómez-Santos , Dmitri K. Efetov , Tobias Stauber

It is shown theoretically that a nonchiral, two-dimensional array of metallic spheres exhibits optical activity as manifested in calculations of circular dichroism. The metallic spheres occupy the sites of a rectangular lattice and for…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vassilios Yannopapas

Electrical transport in non-centrosymmetric materials departs from the well-established phenomenological Ohm's law. Instead of a linear relation between current and electric field, a non-linear conductivity emerges along specific…

Nonlinear mechanical metamaterials can exhibit emergent transport phenomena that mimic topological protection without relying on linear band topology. Here, we realize a bifurcation-induced nonreciprocal lattice that supports robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-05 Brahim Lemkalli , Qingxiang Ji , Jingyi Zhang , Richard Craster , Johan Christensen , Muamer Kadic

In equilibrium liquid crystals, chirality leads to a variety of spectacular three-dimensional structures, but chiral and achiral phases with the same broken continuous symmetries have identical long-time, large-scale dynamics. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ananyo Maitra

A pure spin current formed by opposite spins moving in opposite directions is a rank-2 axial tensor which breaks the inversion symmetry. Thus a spin current has a second-order optical susceptibility, with unique polarization-dependence…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-30 Jing Wang , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

We suggest that electromagnetic chirality, generally displayed by 3D or 2D complex chiral structures, can occur in 1D patterned composites whose components are achiral. This feature is highly unexpected in a 1D system which is geometrically…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Rizza , Andrea Di Falco , Michael Scalora , Alessandro Ciattoni

We derive the nonlinear optical conductivity of an isotropic electron fluid at frequencies below the interparticle collision rate. In this regime, governed by hydrodynamics, the conductivity acquires a universal form at any temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler
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