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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

Using molecular simulations and classical density functional theory, we study the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour of a series of bent rod-like mesogens with a controlled degree of chirality introduced through a twist at the centre of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Anna Ashkinazi , Hemani Chhabra , Anouar El Moumane , Maxime M. C. Tortora , Jonathan P. K. Doye

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

Chirality, the property of asymmetry, is of great importance in biological and physical phenomena. This prospective offers an overview of the emerging field of chiral bioinspired plasmonics and metamaterials, aiming to uncover nature's…

Here we review a universal model for chirally induced spin-selectivity (CISS) as a standalone effect occurring in chiral molecules. We tie together the results of forward scattering in the gas phase to the results for photoelectrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Miguel Mena , Solmar Varela , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

Light is one of the most powerful and precise tools allowing us to control, shape and create new phases of matter. In this task, the magnetic component of a light wave has so far played a unique role in defining the wave's helicity, but its…

The observation of spin-dependent transmission of electrons through chiral molecules has led to the discovery of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). The remarkably high efficiency of the spin polarizing effect has recently gained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Ashish Moharana , Yael Kapon , Fabian Kammerbauer , David Anthofer , Shira Yochelis , Mathias Kläui , Yossi Paltiel , Angela Wittmann

The article seeks to formulate a synergetic law that is posited to be of common physicochemical and biological nature: an evolving system, possessing free energy and elements with chiral asymmetry may change the type of symmetry inside one…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-12-10 Vsevolod A. Tverdislov

Coupling between light and material excitations underlies a wide range of optical phenomena. Polaritons are eigenstates of a coupled system with hybridized wave function. Owing to their hybrid composition, polaritons exhibit at the same…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-27 Denis G. Baranov , Christian Schäfer , Maxim V. Gorkunov

A phase transition can drive the spontaneous emergence of chiral orders in crystals below a critical temperature. However, selecting either a right- or a left-handed phase with the aid of electromagnetic fields is challenging, particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Mauro Fava , Aldo H. Romero , Eric Bousquet

The observation of chirality is ubiquitous in nature. Contrary to intuition, the population of opposite chiralities is surprisingly asymmetric at fundamental levels. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic weak force to the…

Chirality plays a major role in nature, from particle physics to DNA, and its control is much sought-after due to the scientific and technological opportunities it unlocks. For magnetic materials, chiral interactions between spins promote…

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a phenomenon in which electron spins are polarized as they are transported through chiral molecules, and the spin polarization depends on the handedness of the chiral molecule. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nguyen Thanh Phuc

The interaction between electron spin and molecular chirality plays a fundamental role in quantum phenomena, with significant implications for spintronics and quantum computing. The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where…

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 introduce a microscopy technique that facilitates the prediction of spatial features of chirality of nanoscale samples by exploiting photo-induced optical force exerted on an achiral tip in the vicinity of the test specimen. The…

Anomalous Hall effect arising from the noncoplanar spin configuration (chirality) is discussed as a probe of the chiral order in spin glasses. It is shown that the Hall coefficient yields direct information about the linear and nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Hikaru Kawamura

We study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

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

Recent progress in constructing supramolecular assemblies with hierarchical chirality offers new opportunities to investigate the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect and its potential applications. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Song Chen , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Xi Sun , Shu-Zheng Zhou , Hua-Hua Fu