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Biotite crystals are phyllosilicate trioctahedral micas with the general chemical formula K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2 that form a solid-solution series with iron-poor phlogopite and iron-rich annite endmembers. With a wide band gap energy and a…

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has garnered significant interest in the field of molecular spintronics due to its potential for creating spin-polarized electrons without the need for a magnet. Recent studies devoted to…

The role of asymmetry on the evolution of prebiotic homochirality is investigated in the context of autocatalytic polymerization reaction networks. A model featuring enantiometric cross-inhibition and chiral bias is used to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcelo Gleiser

Initial states of dense matter with nonzero electron chiral imbalance could potentially give rise to strong magnetic fields through chiral plasma instability. Previous work indicated that unless chiral chemical potential is as large as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Srimoyee Sen , Varun Vaidya

From the beginning of molecular theory, the interplay of chirality and magnetism has intrigued scientists. There is still the question if enantiospecific adsorption of chiral molecules occurs on magnetic surfaces. Enantiomer discrimination…

The development of prebiotic homochirality on early-Earth or another planetary platform may be viewed as a critical phenomenon. It is shown, in the context of spatio-temporal polymerization reaction networks, that environmental effects --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcelo Gleiser , Joel Thorarinson

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been shown to enhance magnetic sensitivity in radical pair mechanism (RPM) models under specific Hamiltonian conditions, yet whether these enhancements persist across a broader parameter space…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Tristen Gwynn , Betony Adams , Francesco Petruccione

The oxidation of magnetite to maghemite is a naturally occurring process that leads to the degradation of the magnetic properties of magnetite nanoparticles. Despite being systematically observed with traditional macroscopic magnetization…

Living organisms exhibit consistent homochirality. It is argued that the specific, binary choice made is not an accident but is a consequence of parity violation in the weak interaction expressed by cosmic irradiation. The secondary muons…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Noemie Globus , Roger D. Blandford

Low-energy spin-polarized electrons (SPEs) are thought to cause symmetry breaking and could explain the origin of homochirality of prebiotic molecules such as amino acids and sugars. Here we study the effect of cosmic rays (CRs) on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Thiem Hoang

Electrical generation of polarized spins in nonmagnetic materials is of great interest for the underlying physics and device potential. One such mechanism is chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), with which structural chirality leads…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes how chiral molecules and materials generate spin polarization even at thermal equilibrium. This observation has challenged established principles of microscopic reversibility and Onsager…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Pius M. Theiler , Matthew C. Beard

Many bacteria share the fascinating ability to sense Earth's magnetic field -- a process known as magnetotaxis. These bacteria synthesize magnetic nanoparticles, called magnetosomes, within their own cell body and arrange them to form a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Mathias M. Claus , Marcus Wyss , Dirk Schüler , Martino Poggio , Boris Gross

A key open question in the study of life is the origin of biomolecular homochirality: almost every life-form on Earth has exclusively levorotary amino acids and dextrorotary sugars. Will the same handedness be preferred if life is found…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-04 Marcelo Gleiser , Sara Imari Walker

We analyze the generation of helical magnetic fields during preheating in a model of low-scale electroweak (EW) hybrid inflation. We show how the inhomogeneities in the Higgs field, resulting from tachyonic preheating after inflation, seed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Andres Diaz-Gil , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Margarita Garcia Perez , Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo

In the presence of cosmic chiral asymmetry, chiral-vorticity and chiral-magnetic effects can play an important role in the generation and evolution of magnetic fields in the early universe. We include these chiral effects in the magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Tanmay Vachaspati , Alexander Vilenkin

We show that the curvature of nanomagnets can be used to induce chiral textures in the magnetization field. Among the phenomena related to the interplay between geometry and magnetic behavior at nanomagnets, an effective curvature-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Smiljan Vojkovic , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Jakson M. Fonseca , Alvaro S. Nunez

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

Chirality is breaking of mirror symmetry in matter. In the fields of biology and chemistry, this is particularly important because some of the essential molecules in life such as amino acids and DNA have chirality. It is a long-standing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-04 N. Jiang , Y. Nii , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh , Y. Onose

In this thesis, we have studied the generation and evolution of the magnetic field in the early Universe. We investigated the generation of magnetic fields in the presence of chiral symmetry and gravitational anomaly. We have used modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Arun Kumar Pandey