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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…

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The Four Fermi model with discrete chiral symmetry is studied in three dimensions at non-zero chemical potential and temperature using the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. The number of fermion flavors is chosen large $(N_f=12)$ to compare…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Simon Hands , Aleksandar Kocic , John Kogut

Living systems have evolved to efficiently consume available energy sources using an elaborate circuitry of chemical reactions which, puzzlingly, bear a strict restriction to asymmetric chiral configurations. While autocatalysis is known to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 William D. Piñeros , Tsvi Tlusty

We suggest that electromagnetic chirality, generally displayed by 3D or 2D complex chiral structures, can occur in 1D patterned composites whose components are achiral. This feature is highly unexpected in a 1D system which is geometrically…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Rizza , Andrea Di Falco , Michael Scalora , Alessandro Ciattoni

The linear band crossings of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals are characterized by a charge chirality, the parallel or anti-parallel locking of electron spin to its momentum. Such materials are believed to exhibit a ${\bf E} \cdot {\bf B}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-01 Bing Cheng , Timo Schumann , Susanne Stemmer , N. P. Armitage

It is known that diffusion provokes substantial changes in continuous absorbing phase transitions. Conversely, its effect on discontinuous transitions is much less understood. In order to shed light in this direction, we study the inclusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Carlos E. Fiore , Gabriel T. Landi

Chiral processes that lack mirror symmetry pervade nature from enantioselective molecular interactions to the asymmetric development of organisms. An outstanding challenge at the interface between physics and biology consists in bridging…

Most avalanching systems in nature should involve diffusive processes as well which can change the behavior of such systems and should be taken into account. We examine the effects of diffusion on the model of a dissipative bi-directional…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Bregman

We study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

We investigate the phenomenology emerging from a 2-species dynamics under the scenario of a quasi-neutral competition within a metapopulation framework. We employ stochastic and deterministic approaches, namely spatially-constrained…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-05 Marcelo A. Pires , Nuno Crokidakis , Silvio M. Duarte Queirós

We investigate the influence of particle diffusion in the two-dimension contact process (CP) with a competitive dynamics in bipartite sublattices, proposed in [Phys. Rev. E 84, 011125 (2011)]. The particle creation depends on its first and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. M. de Oliveira , C. E. Fiore

Monte Carlo simulation was carried out to understand the influence of morphological inhomogeneity on carrier diffusion in organic thin films. The morphological inhomogeneity was considered in the simulation by incorporating the regions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-28 S. Raj Mohan , Manoranjan P. Singh , M. P. Joshi , L. M. Kukreja

We study, through the diffusion Monte Carlo method, a spin one-half fermion fluid, in the three dimensional Euclidean space, at zero temperature. The point particles, immersed in a uniform "neutralizing" background, interact with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-11 Riccardo Fantoni

We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a cubic domain to investigate the dynamics of heavy, chiral, finite-size inertial particles and their effects on the flow. Using an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-21 Giulia Piumini , Martin P. A. Assen , Detlef Lohse , Roberto Verzicco

In order to study partial restoration of the chiral symmetry at finite density, we investigate the density corrections of the chiral condensate up to next-leading order of density expansion using the chiral Ward identity and an in-medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 S. Goda , D. Jido

Liquid crystal mesophases of achiral molecules are normally achiral, yet in a few materials they spontaneously segregate and form right- and left-handed chiral domains. One mechanism that drives chiral segregation is molecular shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-16 Matthew J. Deutsch , Robin L. B. Selinger , Paul van der Schoot

We predict a discriminatory interaction between a chiral molecule and an achiral molecule which is mediated by a chiral body. To achieve this, we generalize the van der Waals interaction potential between two ground-state molecules with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Pablo Barcellona , Hassan Safari , A. Salam , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

We develop a family of chiral measures to quantify the chirality of a distribution and assign it a handedness. Our measures are built using the tensorial moments of the distribution, which naturally encode its spatial character, not only…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-31 Emilio Pisanty , Nicola Mayer , Andrés Ordóñez , Alexander Löhr , Margarita Khokhlova

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have recently been employed to study properties of nuclei and infinite matter using local chiral effective field theory interactions. In this work, we present a detailed description of the auxiliary field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 D. Lonardoni , S. Gandolfi , J. E. Lynn , C. Petrie , J. Carlson , K. E. Schmidt , A. Schwenk

In this work we study finite density effects in spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking as well as chiral phase transition under the influence of a background magnetic field in $ 2+1 $ dimensions. For this purpose, we use an improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-29 Diego M. Rodrigues , Danning Li , Eduardo Folco Capossoli , Henrique Boschi-Filho