Magnetic chirality

SW Cheong, X Xu - npj Quantum Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chirality with all broken mirror symmetries matters ubiquitously from DNA functionality, vine
climbing, to the piezoelectricity of quartz crystals. Magnetic chirality means chirality in spin …

Magnetic toroidicity

X Xu, FT Huang, SW Cheong - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Directional non-reciprocity refers to the phenomenon where the motion in one direction
differs from the motion in the opposite direction. This behavior is observed across various …

[HTML][HTML] Universal scaling law for chiral antiferromagnetism

S Xu, B Dai, Y Jiang, D **ong, H Cheng, L Tai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The chiral antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, which have been widely investigated due to
their rich physics, such as non-zero Berry phase and topology, provide a platform for the …

Temperature-dependent chirality in halide perovskites

M Pols, G Brocks, S Calero, S Tao - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
With the use of chiral organic cations in two-dimensional metal halide perovskites, chirality
can be induced in the metal halide layers, which results in semiconductors with intriguing …

Nonlinear nonreciprocal transport in antiferromagnets free from spin-orbit coupling

S Hayami, M Yatsushiro - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically propose a realization of nonlinear nonreciprocal transport in
antiferromagnets without relying on the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Through symmetry …

Chiral properties of the zero-field spiral state and field-induced magnetic phases of the itinerant kagome metal

RL Dally, JW Lynn, NJ Ghimire, D Michel, P Siegfried… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Applying a magnetic field in the hexagonal plane of Y Mn 6 Sn 6 leads to a complex
magnetic phase diagram of commensurate and incommensurate phases, one of which …

Field-tunable toroidal moment and anomalous Hall effect in noncollinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co1/3TaS2

P Park, YG Kang, J Kim, KH Lee, HJ Noh… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Combining magnetism with band topology provides various novel phases that are otherwise
impossible. Among several cases, noncollinear metallic antiferromagnets can reveal …

Phonon-induced geometric chirality

CP Romao, DM Juraschek - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral properties have seen increasing use in recent years, leading to the emerging fields of
chiral quantum optics, plasmonics, and phononics. While these fields have achieved …

Emergent phenomena with broken parity-time symmetry: Odd-order versus even-order effects

SW Cheong, FT Huang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Symmetry often governs the laws of nature, and breaking symmetry accompanies an
alternative order parameter and emergent observable phenomena. Herein, we focus on …

Large off-diagonal magnetoelectricity in a triangular Co2+-based collinear antiferromagnet

X Xu, Y Hao, S Peng, Q Zhang, D Ni, C Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic toroidicity is an uncommon type of magnetic structure in solid-state materials.
Here, we experimentally demonstrate that collinear spins in a material with R-3 lattice …