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Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

The theoretical analysis of the effect of uniaxial stress on the magnetization of the system of noninteracting nanoparticles is done by an example of heterophase particles of maghemite, epitaxially coated with cobalt ferrite. It is shown…

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Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

\textit{Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense} biosynthesize high quality magnetite nanoparticles, called magnetosomes, and arrange them into a chain that behaves like a magnetic compass. Here we perform magnetometry and polarized small-angle…

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

Since the discovery of the presence of biogenic magnetites in living organisms, there have been speculations on the role that these biomagnetites play in cellular processes. It seems that the formation of biomagnetite crystals is a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 Istvan Bokkon , Vahid Salari

The spin activity in macromolecules such as DNA and oligopeptides, in the context of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) has been proposed to be due to the atomic Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) and the associated chiral symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Alexander López , Solmar Varela , Ernesto Medina

Since the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) was first observed experimentally, its microscopic mechanism has been continuously explored by the scientific community. Among these investigations, the non-equilibrium effects and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

Modulation of magnetic properties through voltage-driven ion motion and redox processes, i.e., magneto-ionics, is a unique approach to control magnetism with electric field for low-power memory and spintronic applications. So far,…

Magnetically driven microparticles provide a versatile platform for probing and manipulating biological systems, yet the physical framework governing their actuation in complex environments remains only partially explored. Within the field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Andrea Visonà , Robert Morel , Hélène Joisten , Bernard Dieny , Alice Nicolas

Many of the building blocks of life such as amino acids and nucleotides are chiral, i.e., different from their mirror image. Contemporary life selects and synthesizes only one of two possible handednesses. In an abiotic environment,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-20 Axel Brandenburg

The magnetic and dielectric properties of \aa kermanite Sr$_2$CoSi$_2$O$_7$ single crystals in high magnetic fields were investigated. We have observed finite induced electric polarization along the c axis in high fields, wherein all Co…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 M. Akaki , H. Iwamoto , T. Kihara , M. Tokunaga , H. Kuwahara

The magnetic properties of biologically-produced magnetite nanocrystals biomineralized by four different magnetotactic bacteria were compared to those of synthetic magnetite nanocrystals and large, high quality single crystals. The magnetic…

A number of features of living systems: reversible interactions and weak bonds underlying motor-dynamics; gel-sol transitions; cellular connected fractal organization; asymmetry in interactions and organization; quantum coherent phenomena;…

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In this work, a successful synthesis of magnetic cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles is presented. The synthesized CoFe2O4 nanoparticles have a spherical shape and highly monodisperse in the selected solvent. The effect of different…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-19 Z. Mahhouti , H. El Moussaoui , T. Mahfoud , M. Hamedoun , M. El Marssi , A. Lahmar , A. El Kenz , A. Benyoussef

The selection of a single molecular handedness, or homochirality across all living matter, is a mystery in the origin of life. Frank's seminal model showed in the fifties how chiral symmetry breaking can occur in non-equilibrium chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-25 Gabin Laurent , David Lacoste , Pierre Gaspard

Chirality of matter can produce unique responses in optics, electricity and magnetism. In particular, magnetic crystals transmit their handedness to the magnetism via antisymmetric exchange interaction of relativistic origin, producing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 T. Yokouchi , N. Kanazawa , A. Kikkawa , D. Morikawa , K. Shibata , T. Arima , Y. Taguchi , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokura

Chirality is a fundamental property of great importance in physics, chemistry, and biology, and has recently been found to generate unexpected spin polarization for electrons passing through organic molecules, known as chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Qun Yang , Yongkang Li , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

We investigated magnetic textures in a Sc-doped hexaferrite film by means of phase microscopy (PM) with a hole-free phase plate in a transmission electron microscope. In a zero magnetic field, the stripe-shaped magnetic domains coexist with…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-04 Atsuhiro Kotani , Ken Harada , Marek Malac , Hiroshi Nakajima , Kosuke Kurushima , Shigeo Mori

Aqueous chemistry within carbonaceous planetesimals is promising for synthesizing prebiotic organic matter essential to all life. Meteorites derived from these planetesimals delivered these life building blocks to the early Earth,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Klaus Paschek , Mijin Lee , Dmitry A. Semenov , Thomas K. Henning