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A clear understanding of chirality in spin-active electronic states is discussed in order to address confusions about chiral effects recently discovered in materials science. Electronic toroidal monopole $G_0$ can serve as a measure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Hiroaki Kusunose , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

The chiral phase transition of QCD is analyzed in a model combining random matrix elements of the Dirac operator with specially chosen non-random ones. The special form of the latter is motivated by the assumption that the fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tilo Wettig , A. Schäfer , H. A. Weidenmüller

A mixture of spinning particles of two different types represents a system where both nonreciprocity and chirality determine the emergent dynamics. In this work we present a minimal model for a two-species mixture of chiral active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-27 Giulia Pisegna , Suropriya Saha

We study a minimal model to understand the formation of clusters on surfaces in the presence of surface defects. We consider reaction diffusion model in which atoms undergoes reactions at the defect centers to form clusters. Volume…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Trilochan Bagarti , Anupam Roy , K. Kundu , B. N. Dev

The behavior of chiral condensate in a hot and dense medium is investigated within a phenomenological approach inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence. We find that it decreases when temperature and/or chemical potential are increased, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Floriana Giannuzzi

Chirality is an intriguing property of certain molecules, materials or artificial nanostructures, which allows them to interact with the spin angular momentum of the impinging light field. Due to their chiral geometry, they can distinguish…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Peter Banzer , Pawel Wozniak , Uwe Mick , Israel De Leon , Robert W. Boyd

Chirality is one of the most fundamental properties of many physical, chemical and biological systems. However, the mechanisms underlying the onset and control of chiral symmetry are largely understudied. We investigate possibility of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Bing-Wei Li , Mei-Chun Cai , Hong Zhang , Alexander V. Panfilov , Hans Dierckx

Anomalous short- and long-time self-diffusion of non-overlapping fractal particles on a percolation cluster with spreading dimension $1.67(2)$ is studied by dynamic Monte Carlo simulations. As reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097801…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Marco Heinen

Chirality plays a crucial role in determining the structure of many systems in nature. Twisted or helical aggregates as a consequence of self-assembly can be seen in many biological and synthetic materials. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-27 Sayantan Mondal , Jayashree Saha

We examine the effect of decoherence and intermolecular interactions (chiral discrimination energies) on the chiral stability and the distinguishability of initially pure versus mixed states in an open chiral system. Under a two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 Heekyung Han , David M. Wardlaw

Massive Dirac particles are a superposition of left and right chiral components. Since chirality is not a conserved quantity, the free Dirac Hamiltonian evolution induces chiral quantum oscillations, a phenomenon related to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Alex E. Bernardini , Massimo Blasone

We derive expressions for the scattering, extinction and conversion of the chirality of monochromatic light scattered by bodies which are characterized by a T-matrix. In analogy to the conditions obtained from the conservation of energy,…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-22 Philipp Gutsche , Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

Reaction-diffusion systems with reversible reactions generically display power-law relaxation towards chemical equilibrium. In this work we investigate through numerical simulations aging processes that characterize the non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-10 Nasrin Afzal , Justin Waugh , Michel Pleimling

Selective adsorption in a two-dimensional model of a binary hard-disk mixture on patterned adhesive surfaces is studied using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The two species have equal diameters and equal bulk chemical potentials,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Nazar Kukarkin , Taras Patsahan

Numerical simulations of the chiral phase transition in the (3+1)dimensional O(4)-model are presented. The evolutions of the chiral field follow purely dissipative dynamics, starting from random chirally symmetric initial configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Holzwarth , J. Klomfass

Chiral additives in the nematic liquid crystal can alter the dynamics of point defects moving on a disclination line. They exert a constant force on defects, leading to the bimodal distribution of distances between them at long times. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-25 Andrzej Zywocinski , Katarzyna Pawlak , Robert Holyst , Patrick Oswald

Direct sampling of multi-dimensional systems with quantum Monte Carlo methods allows exact account of many-body effects or particle correlations. The most straightforward approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation, Diffusion Monte Carlo,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

Nonlinear responses in crystalline solids are attracting a great deal of attention because of exciting phenomena, such as the bulk photovoltaic effect in noncentrosymmetric crystals and the third harmonic generation related to Higgs modes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-18 Akira Kofuji , Robert Peters

Chiral photonics opens new pathways to manipulate light-matter interactions and tailor the optical response of meta-surfaces and -materials by nanostructuring nontrivial patterns. Chirality of matter, such as that of molecules, and light,…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Oliver Mey , Arash Rahimi-Iman

In this work we study global well-posedness and large time behaviour for a typical reaction--diffusion system, which include degenerate diffusion, and whose non-linearities arise from chemical reactions. We show that there is an {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Amit Einav , Jeff Morgan , Bao Quoc Tang