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The spin-orbit interaction in a focused-reflected beam of light results in spatially non-uniform polarization in the beam cross-section due to the superposition of orthogonal field components and polarization-dependent interface reflection…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Upasana Baishya , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

This paper presents a first-principle and global perspective of electromagnetic chirality. It follows for this purpose a bottom-up construction, from the description of chiral particles or metaparticles (microscopic scale), through the…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-05 Christophe Caloz , Ari Sihvola

Chirality refers to the asymmetry of objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image. It is a concept that exists in various scientific fields and has profound consequences. Although these are perhaps most widely recognized within…

Chirality represents a kind of symmetry breaking characterized by the noncoincidence of an object with its mirror image and has been attracting intense attention in a broad range of scientific areas. The recent realization of spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-27 Wei Han , Xiao-Fei Zhang , Deng-Shan Wang , Hai-Feng Jiang , Wei Zhang , Shou-Gang Zhang

Chirality introduces intriguing topological, electronic, and spin-optronic properties to molecules and solids. In this work, we provide a quantitative metric for the degree of chirality in solids, independent of the type of system and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Andrew Grieder , Shihao Tu , Yuan Ping

Chirality, handedness, is one of the most fundamental intriguing asymmetries in nature. By definition, chiral objects cannot be superimposed onto each other after mirror reflection operation. Numerous examples of chiral structures can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 See-Hun Yang

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.…

Chiral matter has a structure that lacks inversion, mirror, and rotoreflection symmetry; thus, a given chiral material has either a right- or left-handed structure. In chiral matter, electricity and magnetism can be coupled in an exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Tetsuya Furukawa , Yuta Watanabe , Naoki Ogasawara , Kaya Kobayashi , Tetsuaki Itou

Spin-glass and chiral-glass orderings of a three-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg spin glass are studied both by equilibrium and off-equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations with emphasis on their dynamical aspects. The model is found to exhibit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Kawamura , K. Hukushima

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of electron transmission from a straight waveguide to a helix with spin-orbit coupling. Transmission is found to be spin-selective and can lead to large spin polarizations of the itinerant electrons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Clemens Vittmann , R. Kevin Kessing , James Lim , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We present a formulation for the construction of first order equations which describe particles with spin, in the context of a manifestly covariant relativistic theory governed by an invariant evolution parameter; one obtains a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 B. Sarel , L. P. Horwitz

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

Anomalous Hall effect arising from non-trivial spin configuration (chirality) is studied based on the $s$-$d$ model. Considering a weak coupling case, the interaction is treated perturbatively. Scattering by normal impurities is included.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hikaru Kawamura

Chirality is an important concept that describes the asymmetry property of a system, which usually emerges spontaneously due to mirror symmetry breaking. Such spontaneous chirality manifests predominantly as parity breaking in modern…

Chiral molecular junctions offer a promising platform for realizing chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), where spin filtering occurs without external magnetic fields. Here, we investigate spin transport in such junctions by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu Wang , Ruihao Bi , Wei Liu , Jiayue Han , Wenjie Dou

Spin selective transport is usually associated with spin-orbit interactions. However, these interactions are invariant under time-reversal symmetry, and the Onsager relations and Bardarson's theorem imply that such interactions cannot yield…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

Chirality is a concept that one object is not superimposable on its mirror image by translation and rotation. In particular, chiral plasmonics have been widely investigated due to their excellent optical chiral properties, and have led to…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-18 Yuqing Cheng , Mengtao Sun

Chirality of materials in nature appears when there are asymmetries in their lattice structures or interactions in a certain environment. Recent development of quantum simulation technology has enabled the manipulation of qubits.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-23 Tetsufumi Tanamoto

A general mechanism for anesthetic function is not fully understood. Similarly, the mechanism by which xenon, a chemically inert noble gas, can produce anesthetic effects remains ambiguous. However, a previous study reported a surprisingly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Allan Wang , S. Furkan Ozturk