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The chiral central charge $c_-$ is a key topological invariant of the edge characterizing the bulk two-dimensional chiral topological order, but its direct evaluation in microscopic spin models has long been a challenge, especially for…

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We discuss noncollinear magnetic phenomena whose local order parameter is characterized by more than one spin vector. By focusing on the simple cases of 2D triangular and 3D pyrochlore lattices, we demonstrate that their low-energy theories…

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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.…

In solid state physics, any symmetry breaking is known to be associated with emergence of an order parameter. However, the order parameter for molecular and crystal chirality, which is a consequence of parity and mirror symmetry breaking,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-27 Jun-ichiro Kishine , Hiroaki Kusunose , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

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

Motivated by the observation of nematic superconductivity in several systems, we revisit the problem of the leading pairing instability of two-component unconventional superconductors on the triangular lattice -- such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-05 Virginia Gali , Rafael M. Fernandes

Materials with broken fundamental symmetries, such as chiral crystals, provide a rich playground for exploring unconventional spin-dependent transport phenomena. The interplay between a material's chirality, strong spin-orbit coupling, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Shuchen Li , Chang Niu , Peide D. Ye , Axel Hoffmann

A toroidal dipole moment appears independent of the electric and magnetic dipole moment in the multipole expansion of electrodynamics. It arises naturally from vortex-like arrangements of spins. Observing and controlling spontaneous…

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

In recent years, counterparts of phenomena studied in spintronics have been actively explored in the orbital sector. The relationship between orbital degrees of freedom and crystal chirality has also been intensively investigated, although…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Kazuki Nakazawa , Terufumi Yamaguchi , Ai Yamakage

Our world is composed of various materials with different structures, where spin structures have been playing a pivotal role in spintronic devices of the contemporary information technology. Apart from conventional collinear spin materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Peixin Qin , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Zexin Feng , Huixin Guo , Xiaorong Zhou , Haojiang Wu , Xin Zhang , Zhaoguogang Leng , Hongyu Chen , Zhiqi Liu

Systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, which competes with other interactions and energy scales, offer a fertile playground to explore new correlated phases of matter. Weyl semimetals are an example where the phenomenon leads to a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-13 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

Chiral structures, breaking spatial inversion symmetry, exhibit non-zero chiroptical activity (COA) due to the interaction between their electric and magnetic responses under external electromagnetic fields, an effect that is otherwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Solmar Varela , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Ernesto Medina , Vladimiro Mujica

The control of wave propagation, particularly the quest for unidirectional transport, plays an important role in photonics and metamaterial science. While nonreciprocity is known to enable unidirectional amplification and stabilize complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-10 Wen-Rong Sun , Jesús Cuevas Maraver

We theoretically investigate an antiferromagnetic structure in a hexagonal zigzag-chain compound Ce$_3$TiBi$_5$, which shows a linear magnetoelectric effect in metals and an unfamiliar temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-19 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

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 investigate the multipole structure of the nucleon tensor form factors within the chiral quark-soliton model based on the $1/N_c$ expansion. Extending the previous leading-order analysis~\cite{Ghim:2025gqo}, we include the rotational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Nam-Yong Ghim , Ho-Yeon Won , June-Young Kim , Hyun-Chul Kim

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

The shape of 3$d$-orbitals often governs the electronic and magnetic properties of correlated transition metal oxides. In the superconducting cuprates, the planar confinement of the $d_{x^2-y^2}$ orbital dictates the two-dimensional nature…

A lot of attention has been drawn to superconductivity in UTe$_2$, with suggestions of time-reversal symmetry breaking triplet chiral superconducting order parameter. The chirality of the order parameter has been attributed to an accidental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-12 Daniel Shaffer , Dmitry Chichinadze