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In a chiral superconductor with broken time-reversal symmetry a ``spontaneous Hall effect'' may be observed. We analyze this phenomenon by taking into account the surface properties of a chiral superconductor. We identify two main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Akira Furusaki , Masashige Matsumoto , Manfred Sigrist

Resonant dielectric planar structures can interact selectively with light of particular helicity thus providing an attractive platform for chiral flat optics. The absence of mirror-symmetry planes defines geometric chirality, and it remains…

When a spin-splitting field is introduced to a thin film superconductor, the spin currents polarized along the field couples to energy currents that can only decay via inelastic scattering. We study spin and energy injection into such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Jacob Linder

Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging (CXDI) technique offers unique insights into the nanoscale world, enabling the reconstruction of 3D structures with a nanoscale resolution achieved through computational phase reconstruction from measured…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Fangzhou Ai , Oleg Shpyrko , Vitaliy Lomakin

We demonstrate a circularly polarized photoluminescence emission, with dissymmetry factors $g_\mathrm{PL}$ over 0.1, from achiral organic dye molecules by leveraging quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) and surface lattice…

Chiral photonics opens new pathways to manipulate light-matter interactions and tailor the optical response of meta-surfaces and -materials by nanostructuring nontrivial patterns. Chirality of matter, such as that of molecules, and light,…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Oliver Mey , Arash Rahimi-Iman

We propose a model of quasiparticle tunneling across the high-$T_c$ superconductor-insulator-normal metal junction based on the different mechanisms for tunneling of electrons at positive bias and dissociating polaronic Cooper pairs and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-06-08 S. Dzhumanov , O. K. Ganiev , Sh. S. Djumanov

We present a method to implement 3-dimensional polariton confinement with in-situ spectral tuning of the cavity mode. Our tunable microcavity is a hybrid system consisting of a bottom semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with a…

We report that normal incidence reflection and transmission of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves from and through planar split-ring metamaterials with chiral symmetry breaking depends on the incidence direction and handedness of…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-31 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

This paper presents the design and experimental demonstration of an impedance-matched circular polarization selective surface which also offers spin-selective phase modulations at microwave frequencies. We achieve this by leveraging the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Minseok Kim , George V. Eleftheriades

We propose a route to achieve odd-parity spin-triplet superconductivity in metallic collinear antiferromagnets with inversion symmetry. Owing to the existence of hidden antiunitary symmetry, which we call the effective time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-17 Seung Hun Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

Chiral quantum optics has attracted considerable interest in the field of quantum information science. Exploiting the spin-polarization properties of quantum emitters and engineering rational photonic nanostructures has made it possible to…

Chiral superconductivity is a time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconducting phase that has attracted broad interest as a potential platform for topological quantum computation. A fundamental consequence of this symmetry breaking is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-12 Jihang Zhu , Chunli Huang

The optical Hall conductivity and the polar Kerr angle are calculated as functions of temperature for a two-dimensional chiral p_x+ip_y superconductor, where the time-reversal symmetry is spontaneously broken. The theoretical estimate for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor M. Yakovenko

Sculpting sub-cycle temporal structures of optical waveforms allows one to image and even control electronic clouds in atoms, molecules and solids. Here we show how the transverse spin component arising upon spatial confinement of such…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-17 David Ayuso , Andres Ordonez , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking phenomenon in which spin-unpolarized electrons become spin-polarized after traversing a chiral medium. Theoretical studies have shown that spin-orbit coupling, geometric chirality, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Lizhou Liu , Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

Circularly polarized light plays a key role in many applications including spectroscopy, microscopy, and control of atomic systems. Particularly in the latter, high polarization purity is often required. Integrated technologies for atomic…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-20 Leonardo Massai , Tom Schatteburg , Jonathan P. Home , Karan K. Mehta

We study nanodevices based on ultrathin superconducting nanowires connected in parallel to form nanowire SQUIDs. The function of the critical current versus magnetic field, $I_{C}(B)$, is multivalued, asymmetric and its maxima and minima…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 Andrew Murphy , Alexey Bezryadin

Chirality-driven optical properties in charge density waves are of fundamental and practical importance. Here, we investigate the interaction between circularly polarized light and emergent chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Sun-Woo Kim , Hyun-Jung Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Tae-Hwan Kim

Motivated by recent claims, we revisit how coherent perfect absorption (CPA) influences cavity and polaritonic linewidths. Using standard input output theory and measurements on single port bare microwave cavities and cavity magnon hybrids,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 M. Ebrahimi , Y. Huang , A. Rashedi , J. P. Davis