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We compare the various chirality measures most widely used in the literature to quantify chiral symmetry in extended solids, i.e., the continuous chirality measure, the Hausdorff distance, and the angular momentum. By studying these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-09 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Mauro Fava , Emma E. McCabe , Aldo H. Romero , Eric Bousquet

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

The fundamental issues of symmetry related to chirality are discussed and applied to simple situations relevant to liquid crystals. We show that any chiral measure of a geometric object is a pseudoscalar (invariant under proper rotations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. B. Harris , Randall D. Kamien , T. C. Lubensky

Optical chirality density is widely used as a scalar measure of the chiral properties of electromagnetic fields and their interaction with matter. However, in anisotropic and structured media, a single scalar quantity is generally…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ilia Smagin , Sergey Dyakov

Chirality is a fundamental symmetry concept describing discrete states, i.e., left-handed, right-handed, or achiral, and existing at disparate scales and in many categories of scientific fields. Even though symmetry breaking is…

Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at unprecedented energy regimes and with Angstr\"om and femtosecond…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Jeremy R. Rouxel , Shaul Mukamel

Chirality in condensed matter is now a topic of the utmost importance because of its significant role in the understanding and mastering of a large variety of new fundamental physicals mechanisms. Versatile experimental approaches, capable…

Chirality governs phenomena ranging from chemical reactions to the topology of quasiparticle charge carriers. However, a direct macroscopic probe for crystal chirality remains a significant challenge, especially in time reversal symmetric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ning Mao , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

Chirality occupies a central role in fields ranging from biological self-assembly to the design of optical metamaterials. The definition of chirality, as given by Lord Kelvin, associates chirality with the lack of mirror symmetry: the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-21 Efi Efrati , William T. M. Irvine

The helicity or chirality of scattered light is strongly linked to the dual symmetry of the scatterer. The latter depends on chiral materials or on scatterers which are not superimposable with their mirror image. This inherently yields…

We formulate a transparent measure that quantifies chirality in single electron ionization triggered in atoms, which are achiral systems. We do so in the context of Ar driven by a new type of optical fields that consists of two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 G. P. Katsoulis , Z. Dube , P. Corkum , A. Staudte , A. Emmanouilidou

We have investigated multiple scattering of light in systems subject to magneto-chiral (MC) effects. Our medium consists of magneto-optically active dipoles placed in a chiral geometry under the influence of an external magnetic field. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Pinheiro , B. A. van Tiggelen

Recently, we proposed a metasurface design for chiral sensing that (i) results in enhanced chiroptical signals by more than two orders of magnitude for ultrathin, subwavelength, chiral samples over a uniform and accessible area, (ii) allows…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sotiris Droulias , Lykourgos Bougas

A clear understanding of chirality in spin-active electronic states is discussed in order to address confusions about chiral effects recently discovered in materials science. Electronic toroidal monopole $G_0$ can serve as a measure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Hiroaki Kusunose , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

Chirality ubiquitously appears in nature, however, its quantification remains obscure owing to the lack of microscopic description at the quantum-mechanical level. We propose a way of evaluating chirality in terms of electric toroidal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-22 Akane Inda , Rikuto Oiwa , Satoru Hayami , Hiroshi M Yamamoto , Hiroaki Kusunose

The use of the absolute measure of local chirality is championed since it has a uniform distribution for randomly reshuffled chiral components so that any deviations from uniformity in the associated "X-distribution" are directly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-14 Andrei Alexandru , Terrence Draper , Ivan Horváth , Thomas Streuer

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in chiral phonons, lattice vibrations carrying angular momentum and exhibiting handedness, as revealed by helicity-dependent optical phenomena. Despite this progress, a quantitative…

Chiral phonons have been proposed to be involved in various physical phenomena, yet the chirality of molecular normal modes has not been well defined mathematically. Here we examine two approaches for assigning and quantifying the chirality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Ethan Abraham , Abraham Nitzan

Molecular chirality has traditionally been viewed as a binary property where a molecule is classified as either chiral or achiral, yet in the recent decades mathematical methods for quantifying chirality have been explored. Here we use toy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Ethan Abraham , Abraham Nitzan

Our objective is to develop compact video representations that are sensitive to visual change over time. To measure such time-sensitivity, we introduce a new task: chiral action recognition, where one needs to distinguish between a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Piyush Bagad , Andrew Zisserman
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