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Spinless systems exhibit unique topological characteristics compared to spinful ones, stemming from their distinct algebra. Without chiral interactions typically linked to spin, an intriguing yet unexplored interplay between topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Cong Chen , Xu-Tao Zeng , Wang Yao

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The azimuthal charge-particle correlations as functions of the temperature are calculated. It is found that there is a pronounced cusp in the correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu

The dynamical encirclement around a second order exceptional point (EP) and corresponding chirality driven nonadiabatic modal dynamics have attracted enormous attention in the topological study of various non-Hermitian systems. However,…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-08 Sibnath Dey , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

Chirality or the handedness of objects is of prime importance in life science, biology, chemistry and physics. It is also a major symmetry ingredient in frustrated magnets revealing spin-spiral ground states. Vector chiral phases, with the…

The pairing-plus-quadrupole Hamiltonian is diagonalized in a symmetry restored basis, i.e., the triaxial quasiparticle-states with angular momentum and particle number projections, and applied for chiral doublet bands in 128Cs. The observed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 F. Q. Chen , Q. B. Chen , Y. A. Luo , J. Meng , S. Q. Zhang

The proton to $\Delta^+$ resonance transitional gravitational form factors are calculated to leading one-loop order using chiral perturbation theory in our recent work [1]. We take into account the leading electromagnetic and strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Bao-Dong Sun

The large N_c N=4 gauge theory with quenched N=2 quark matter displays chiral symmetry breaking in the presence of a magnetic field. We previously studied the temperature and chemical potential phase structure of this theory in the grand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nick Evans , Astrid Gebauer , Keun-Young Kim

A possible solution of the well known paradox of chiral molecules is based on the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking. At low pressure the molecules are delocalized between the two minima of a given molecular potential while at higher…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Presilla , Giovanni Jona-Lasinio

We study the momentum and the quark mass dependence of the axial nucleon to Delta(1232) transition form factors in the framework of non-relativistic chiral effective field theory to leading-one-loop order. The outcome of our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-23 Massimiliano Procura

Chiral symmetry undergoes a metamorphosis at $T_c$. For $T < T_c$, the usual Noether charge, $\Qa$, is dynamically broken by the vacuum. Above $T_c$, chiral symmetry undergoes a subtle change, and the Noether charge \underline{{\em morphs}}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Ngee Pong Chang

Chirality is a manifestation of the asymmetry inherent in nature. It has been defined as the symmetry breaking of the parity of static objects, and the definition was extended to dynamic motion such that true and false chiralities were…

Adopting the fully quantal triaxial particle rotor model, the candidate chiral doublet bands in odd-$A$ nuclei $^{103}$Rh and $^{105}$Rh with $\pi g_{9/2}^{-1}\otimes\nu h^{2}_{11/2}$ configuration are studied. For the doublet bands in both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 B. Qi , S. Q. Zhang , S. Y. Wang , J. Meng , T. Koike

Chiral materials are the ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry, relativistic effects, and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been intensively studied to electrically generate…

We investigate the effect of the electric-charge neutrality in $\beta$ equilibrium on the chiral phase transition by solving the chiral and diquark condensates in the two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We demonstrate that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-16 Zhao Zhang , Kenji Fukushima , Teiji Kunihiro

Attosecond science is an emerging topic where chirality plays a central role. Here we demonstrate subjecting iodoacetylene, a geometrically achiral molecule, to a pair of simulated non-ionizing ultrafast circularly polarized laser pulses at…

The three complex form factors entering the $\Delta\to N\gamma^\ast$ vertex are calculated to ${\cal O}(\epsilon^3)$ in the framework of a chiral effective theory with explicit \Delta(1232) degrees of freedom included. It is shown that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. C. Gellas , T. R. Hemmert , C. N. Ktorides , G. I. Poulis

We investigate how the quantum friction experienced by a polarizable atom moving with constant velocity parallel to a planar interface is modified when the latter consists of chiral or nonreciprocal media, with special focus on topological…

We study in this work the 2D dynamics of an experimental system of disk-shaped rotors, fluidized by turbulent upflow. Contrary to previous knowledge, our experiments show the same particle chiral geometry can produce flows with different…

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and plays crucial roles in biology, medicine, physics and materials science. Understanding and controlling chirality is therefore an important research challenge with broad implications in fundamental and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Gustav Nyström , Mario Arcari , Raffaele Mezzenga

Quasiparticles describe collective excitations in many-body systems, and their symmetry classification is of fundamental importance because they govern physical processes on various timescales, e.g., excited states, transport phenomena, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Hiroki Ueda , Abhishek Nag , Carl P. Romao , Mirian García-Fernández , Ke-Jin Zhou , Urs Staub