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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…

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Autocatalysis underlies the ability of chemical and biochemical systems to replicate. Autocatalysis was recently defined stoichiometrically for reaction networks; five types of minimal autocatalytic networks, termed autocatalytic cores were…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Praneet Nandan , Philippe Nghe , Jeremie Unterberger

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

Molecular chirality is inherent to biology and cellular chemistry. In this report, the origin of enantiomeric selectivity is analyzed from the viewpoint of the "RNA World" model, based on the autocatalytic self-replication of glyceraldehyde…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 J. A. Cowan , R. J. Furnstahl

A universal feature of the biochemistry of any living system is that all the molecules and catalysts that are required for reactions of the system can be built up from an available food source by repeated application of reactions from…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-11 Wim Hordijk , Peter R. Wills , Mike Steel

The critical properties of the Frank model of spontaneous chiral synthesis are discussed by applying results from the field theoretic renormalization group (RG). The long time and long wavelength features of this microscopic reaction scheme…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-08-23 David Hochberg , Maria-Paz Zorzano

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

Developing effective methods to measure the enantiomeric excess of the chiral mixture is one of the major topics in chiral molecular researches, yet remains challenging. Enantiodetection method via two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy based on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Mao-Rui Cai , Chong Ye , Yong Li , Hui Dong

Autocatalysis is an important feature of metabolic networks, contributing crucially to the self-maintenance of organisms. Autocatalytic subsystems of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are characterized in terms of algebraic conditions on…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 Richard Golnik , Thomas Gatter , Peter F. Stadler , Nicola Vassena

We propose a new mechanism for the achievment of homochirality in life without any autocatalytic production process. Our model consists of a spontaneous production together with a recycling cross inhibition in a closed system. It is shown…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takeshi Sugimori , Hiroyuki Hyuga , Yukio Saito

Biological organisms often have elongated, flexible structures with some degree of chirality in their bodies or movements. In nature, these organisms frequently take advantage of self-encapsulation mechanisms that create folded…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Iman Abdoli , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen

Chiral symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in biological systems, from DNA to bacterial suspensions. A key unresolved problem is how chiral structures may spontaneously emerge from achiral interactions. We study a simple model of bacterial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-18 Rebekka E. Breier , Robin L. B. Selinger , Giovanni Ciccotti , Stephan Herminghaus , Marco G. Mazza

Enantio-conversion with the help of electromagnetic fields is an essential issue due to the chirality-dependence of many chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical processes. Here, we propose a method for this issue based on a five-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Chong Ye , Bo Liu , Yu-Yuan Chen , Yong Li

We study the dynamics of a system made up of particles of two different species undergoing irreversible quadratic autocatalytic reactions: $A + B \to 2A$. We especially focus on the reaction velocity and on the average time at which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-01 E. Agliari , R. Burioni , D. Cassi , F. M. Neri

We study the chiral symmetry breaking and restoration in $ (2+1) $-dimensional gauge theories from the holographic hard and softwall models. We describe the behavior of the chiral condensate in the presence of an external magnetic field for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Diego M. Rodrigues , Danning Li , Eduardo Folco Capossoli , Henrique Boschi-Filho

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in the entanglement-based characterization of quantum phases of matter. The primary objects of interest are the reduced density matrix and its associated entanglement Hamiltonian. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Yunlong Zang

Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Fransson

It is shown in the framework of an extended NJL model with two flavors that some types of external chromomagnetic field induce the dynamical chiral or color symmetry breaking even at weakest attraction between quarks. It is argued also that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ebert , V. V. Khudyakov , K. G. Klimenko , H. Toki , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

We investigate the effects of hyperbolic hydrodynamical mixing on the reaction kinetics of autocatalytic systems. Exact results are derived for the two dimensional open baker map as an underlying mixing dynamics for a two-component…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Toroczkai , G. Karolyi , A. Pentek , T Tel

The theory of the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking in QED is developed. An approximation for the Schwinger-Dyson equations describing reliably this phenomenon is established, i.e., it is shown that there exists a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy