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We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems in the hydrodynamic flow regime, when the normal scattering processes, which conserve the total quasi-momentum of the system of electrons and quasi-particles that interact…

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In this work, the action of the relativistic electron is derived from the hydrodynamic formulation of the Dirac equation. In particular, in the hydrodynamic scenario, the four-velocity of the electron is regarded as an Eulerian field and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Loris D'Alessi

We studied a collection of chiral active particles (CAP) on a two dimensional substrate using extensive numerical study. Particles interact through soft repulsive interaction. The activity and chirality of particles is tuned by varying…

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In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent 'atoms' are determined by the flow and that viscous stresses damp motion. Activation of the rotational degrees of…

Helimagnetic structures, in which the magnetic moments are spirally ordered, host an internal degree of freedom called chirality (or helicity) corresponding to the handedness of the helix. The chirality seems quite robust against…

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Spins of electrons in CMOS quantum dots combine exquisite quantum properties and scalable fabrication. In the age of quantum technology, however, the metrics that crowned Si/SiO2 as the microelectronics standard need to be reassessed with…

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

Molecular chirality is a key design property for many technologies including bioresponsive imaging, circularly polarized light detection and emission, molecular motors and switches. Imaging and manipulating the primary steps of transient…

The hydrodynamic flow of the chiral electron fluid in a Weyl semimetal slab of finite thickness is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic theory. The latter includes viscous, anomalous, and vortical effects, as well as accounts for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Chirality in polymeric systems enables a wide range of emergent optical, mechanical, and transport phenomena, yet a unified framework that quantitatively connects molecular-scale geometry to chiral behavior remains lacking. Existing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-20 Michael Grant , Poornima Padmanabhan

Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural world. Many biomolecules without inversion symmetry such as amino acids and sugars are chiral molecules. Measuring and controlling molecular chirality at a high precision down to the…

Periodically-driven open quantum systems that never thermalize exhibit a discrete time-crystal behavior, a non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon that has shown promise in quantum information processing applications. Measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

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…

Ionic crystals, such as solid electrolytes and complex oxides, are central to modern technologies for energy storage, sensing, actuation, and other functional applications. An important fundamental issue in the atomic and quantum-scale…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Shoham Sen , Yang Wang , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization and first-principles prediction of their spin-optoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Christian Multunas , Andrew Grieder , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The spin and the chirality orderings of the Heisenberg spin glass in two dimensions with the nearest-neighbor Gaussian coupling are investigated by equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations. Particular attention is paid to the behavior of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Hikaru Kawamura , Hitoshi Yonehara

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to the fact that electrons get spin polarized after passing through organic chiral molecules in a nanoscale device. In CISS, chiral molecules are commonly believed to be a spin filter through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yotam Wolf , Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Noejung Park , Binghai Yan

Current carrying chiral edge states in quantum Hall systems have fascinating properties that are usually studied by electron spectroscopy and interferometry. Here we demonstrate that electron occupation, current, and electron coherence in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Ashutosh Singh , Maria Sebastian , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

A microscopic theory of odd viscosity in two-dimensional electron systems with smooth disorder and spin-orbit interaction is developed. It is shown that spin-orbit scattering in presence of spin polarization induced by magnetic field gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 D. S. Zohrabyan , M. M. Glazov

We propose the concept of helicity maximization applicable to structured light and obtain a universal rela-tion for the maximum of helicity density at a given field energy density. We further demonstrate that us-ing structured light with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Mina Hanifeh , Mohammad Albooyeh , Filippo Capolino