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We construct phase diagrams for charged rodlike colloids within the second-virial approximation as a function of rod concentration, salt concentration, and colloidal charge. Besides the expected isotropic-nematic transition, we also find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-02 Tara Drwenski , Simone Dussi , Michiel Hermes , Marjolein Dijkstra , René van Roij

A particle rotor model is developed which couples several valence protons and neutrons to a rigid triaxial rotor core. It is applied to investigating the chirality in odd-$A$ nucleus $^{135}$Nd with $\pi h_{11/2}^2\otimes\nu h^{-1}_{11/2}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 B. Qi , S. Q. Zhang , J. Meng , S. Y. Wang , S. Frauendorf

The singular potential method in the Q tensor order parameter representation is used to determine the ground state configuration of an elastically anisotropic nematic liquid crystal when confined to a cylindrical geometry with homeotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-24 Lucas Myers , Jorge Viñals

We study random close packed systems of magnetic spheres by Monte Carlo simulations in order to estimate their phase diagram. The uniaxial anisotropy of the spheres makes each of them behave as a single Ising dipole along a fixed easy axis.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-09 J. J. Alonso , B. Alles , V. Russier

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

We investigate the higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence in a family of chiral-symmetric Bloch Hamiltonians with anticommuting mirror symmetries. These models generalize the $\pi$-flux square lattice, the prototypical topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Suman Aich , Babak Seradjeh

Nonlocally coupled oscillator systems can exhibit an exotic spatiotemporal structure called chimera, where the system splits into two groups of oscillators with sharp boundaries, one of which is phase-locked and the other is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoji Kawamura

Colloidal particles in polymer solutions and functionalized nanoparticles often exhibit short-range attraction coupled with long-range repulsion (SALR) leading to the spontaneous formation of symmetric patterns. Chiral nanostructures formed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-19 Jakub Pekalski , Eldar Bildanov , Alina Ciach

Chiral symmetry in energy bands appears as perfectly symmetric anti-bonding and bonding pairs of energy levels. It has only been observed in a few classes of models with a bipartite lattice structure or Bogoliubov-de-Gennes systems having…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-24 Hiroki Nakai , Masataka Kawano , Chisa Hotta

Chirality, the breaking of improper rotational symmetry, is a fundamental concept spanning diverse scientific domains. In condensed matter physics, chiral phonons, originating from circular atomic motions that carry angular momentum, have…

Topology, a well-established concept in mathematics, has nowadays become essential to describe condensed matter. At its core are chiral electron states on the bulk, surfaces and edges of the condensed matter systems, in which spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

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

The development of spintronic oscillators is driven by their potential applications in radio frequency telecommunication and neuromorphic computing. In this work, we propose a spintronic oscillator based on the chiral coupling in thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhiyang Zeng , Zhaochu Luo , Laura J. Heyderman , Joo-Von Kim , Aleš Hrabec

In [1], we demonstrated that the structure function $g_1(x_B,Q^2)$ measured in polarized deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) is dominated by the triangle anomaly in both the Bjorken limit of large $Q^2$ and the Regge limit of small $x_B$. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-11 Andrey Tarasov , Raju Venugopalan

We investigate the pattern dynamics of the one-dimensional nonreciprocal Swift-Hohenberg model. Characteristic spatiotemporal patterns such as disordered, aligned, swap, chiral-swap, and chiral phases emerge depending on the parameters. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-11 Yuta Tateyama , Hiroaki Ito , Shigeyuki Komura , Hiroyuki Kitahata

Chirality, a fundamental concept from biological molecules to advanced materials, is prevalent in nature. Yet, its intricate behavior in specific topological systems remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate the emergence of hidden…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Seung-Gyo Jeong , Sang-Hoon Han , Tae-Hwan Kim , Sangmo Cheon

Spin and chirality orderings of the three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass under magnetic fields are studied by large-scale equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations. It is found that the chiral-glass transition and the chiral-glass ordered…

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

Granular packings of non-convex or elongated particles can form free-standing structures like walls or arches. For some particle shapes, such as staples, the rigidity arises from interlocking of pairs of particles, but the origins of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-06 Yuchen Zhao , Jonathan Barés , Joshua E. S. Socolar

The Binder ratios exhibit discrepancy from the Gaussian behavior of the magnetic cumulants, and their size independence at the critical point has been widely utilized in numerical studies of critical phenomena. In the present article we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-05 Yoshihiko Nonomura , Yusuke Tomita

We study the effects of quenched disorder on the commensurate-incommensurate transitions in the 1D $\mathbb{Z}_N$ chiral clock model. The interplay of domain walls and rare regions rounds the sharp transitions of the pure model. The density…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-01 Pengfei Liang , Rosario Fazio , Stefano Chesi