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In this Letter, we predict a structural phase transition unique to chiral crystals with screw symmetry. In chiral crystals, the phonon frequency renormalized by the electron-phonon coupling depends on the handedness of circular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

Ferrochiral materials with an achiral-to-chiral phase transition and switchable chirality have unique application opportunities, enabling control of the angular momentum of circularly polarized lattice vibrations (chiral phonons) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 C. R. Zeiger , R. S. Dragland , R. Sjökvist , R. Beanland , D. Meier , T. Grande , M. S. Senn , O. G. Grendal

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

A simplified model of periodic chiral beam-lattices containing local resonators has been formulated to obtain a better understanding of the influence of the chirality and of the dynamic characteristics of the local resonators on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-10 Andrea Bacigalupo , Luigi Gambarotta

Chirality in inorganic nanoparticles and nanostructures has gained increasing scientific interest, because of the possibility to tune their ability to interact differently with left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. In some…

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

The possibility of creating and manipulating nanostructured materials encouraged the exploration of new strategies to control electromagnetic properties. Among the most intriguing nanostructures are those that respond differently to helical…

Chiral functionalities exhibited by systems lacking any mirror symmetry encompass natural optical activity, magnetochiral effect, diagonal current-induced magnetization, chirality-selective spin-polarized current of charged electrons or…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Sang-Wook Cheongand Fei-Ting Huang

Dirac particles have two intrinsic degrees-of-freedom, helicity and chirality. While helicity is conserved in time, chirality is not constant under time evolution for massive particles, yielding the phenomenon of chiral oscillations. So…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Victor Bittencourt , Massimo Blasone , Gennaro Zanfardino

We extend our analysis of the leading hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon using the mixed representation method to study its chiral behavior. We present results derived from local-conserved two-point lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-29 Anthony Francis , Vera Guelpers , Gregorio Herdoiza , Hanno Horch , Benjamin Jaeger , Harvey B. Meyer , Hartmut Wittig

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…

We use continuum theory to show that chirality is a key thermodynamic control parameter for the aggregation of biopolymers: chirality produces a stable disperse phase of hexagonal bundles under moderately poor solvent conditions, as has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory M. Grason , Robijn F. Bruinsma

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 demonstrate through first-principles calculations applied to the K$_{3}$NiO$_{2}$ crystal that a structural phase transition from an achiral to a chiral phase can be mediated by a degenerate soft phonon mode and controlled by pressure…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Mauro Fava , Emma McCabe , Aldo H. Romero , Eric Bousquet

Phonon chirality has attracted intensive attention since it breaks the traditional cognition that phonons are linear propagating bosons. This new quasiparticle property has been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Qingan Cai , Olle Hellman , Bin Wei , Qiyang Sun , Ayman H. Said , Thomas Gog , Barry Winn , Chen Li

Chiral vibrations are studied with the RPA plus self-consistent tilted axis cranking formalism in the A=135 region. In this method chiral vibrations appear as a precursor to the static chiral regime. The properties of the RPA phonons are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Daniel Almehed , Friedrich Doenau , Stefan Frauendorf

We review recent progress on the lattice simulations of the chiral magnetic effect. There are two different approaches to analyze the chiral magnetic effect on the lattice. In one approach, the charge density distribution or the current…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-05 Arata Yamamoto

Chiral phonons offer a route to transfer angular momentum without relying on magnetic order, but their electronic response in metals remains poorly understood from perspectives beyond spin-based scenarios. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 A. Pezo , A. Manchon , Y. Nii , K. Ando , T. Kato

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

Reporting about the formalism with the Dirac equation we describe the dynamics of chiral oscillations for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field. For massive particles, the chirality and helicity quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini , Marcelo M. Guzzo