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Chirality: from particles and nuclei to quantum materials. Дмитрий Харзеев.
This document summarizes a conference on chirality from subatomic particles to quantum materials. It discusses how chirality, the property of handedness, is observed from DNA and amino acids to light polarization and neutrinos. Chiral effects like the chiral magnetic effect are studied in heavy ion collisions and Dirac semimetals. Applications of chirality include graphene-based electronics, photonics and terahertz medical imaging devices for precision cancer surgery guidance.
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- 1. RASA Conference, CambridgeMA, November 8-9, 2014 ! 1! Chirality! from particles and nuclei to ! quantum materials ! D. Kharzeev ! !
- 2. Outline! ! Whatis Chirality?! ! Chirality, light, and matter! ! Chirality in nuclear and particle physics! example: Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME)! ! Chirality in quantum materials:! CME, optoelectronics, photonics, imaging! ! example: precision surgical guidance in! cancer treatment!
- 3. Chirality: the definition Greek word: χειρ (cheir) - hand! Lord Kelvin (1893): “I call any geometrical figure, or groups of points, chiral, and say it has chirality, if its image in a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself.”!
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- 5. Living organisms containalmost only ! left-handed (LH) amino-acids and right-handed (RH) sugars – ! you would starve on LH sugar! (artificial sweeteners)! www.rowland.harvard.edu/rjf/fischer! 2500 chiral drugs! (most of the new)!
- 6. Chirality: practical application,240 B.C.! 6! The Archimedes screw!
- 7. Chirality and hydrodynamics, 300 million years ago ! 7! The Archimedes screw, Carboniferous period (360 - 300 million years ago) common in fossils; extinct since Triassic (250 million years ago)
- 8. Chirality: light andmatter! Louis Pasteur! 1822-1895! Rotation of light polarization in! tartaric acid - absent in synthesized one,! but present in the one derived from! wine lees different mixtures of! left and right crystals !
- 9. Chirality in subatomicworld: the neutrinoOnly left-handed neutrinos! exist in the Standard Model!
- 10. Chirality and matter! Spin parallel to momentum:! right-handed! Spin anti-parallel to momentum:! left-handed! Chirality depends on ! the reference frame:!
- 11. Chirality and matter! Chirality depends on the reference frame;! but, nothing can move faster than light!! ! So for massless particles (moving with the speed! of light) chirality is conserved:!
- 12. 12! Chiral particles! non-relativistic,! massive! massless,! relativistic! nuclear physics, electrons! in solids, ...! photons, neutrinos,! light quarks,! quasi-particles in chiral materials
- 13. Chiral 13! par(cles and Dirac sea p m2c4 + p2c2 E = ±
- 14. Chirality and light Circularly polarized electromagnetic wave! can be left- or right-handed! 14! !
- 15. Chirality and light,2000 BC 15! The scarab beetle – the symbol of ! reincarnation in ancient Egypt!
- 16. Chirality and light Photographs of a scarab beetle (Potosia aeruginosa jousselini) taken through a left- and a right-handed circular polarizer, showing that the cuticle reflects ! left-handed circularly polarized light! 16!
- 17. Light and electromagnetism! James C. Maxwell, 1831-1879! Michael Faraday, 1791-1867! Maxwell theory! is left-right ! symmetric!
- 18. Chirality in electrodynamics: Maxwell-‐Chern-‐Simons theory Chiral current Photons! DK, Annals Phys. 325 (2010) 205-218 !
- 19. Chiral Magnetic Effect: chirality + magnetic field = current! spin! momentum! 19! DK,McLerran,! Warringa ‘07!
- 20. Chiral magnetic conductivity: discrete symmetries! 20! P-even T-odd! P-odd ! P-odd! T-odd! P-odd effect!! T-even! Non-dissipative current! (chiral electronics)! cf Ohmic conductivity: T-odd, dissipative! Effect persists in! hydrodynamics!! P – parity (mirror)! T – time reversal!
- 21. CME on supercomputers!arXiv:1105.0385, PRL ! 21!
- 22. The Chiral Magne9c Wave: oscilla9ons of electric and chiral charges coupled by the chiral anomaly In strong magnetic field, CMW propagates with the speed of light!! DK, H.-U. Yee, Phys Rev D’11 22! Chiral! Electric!
- 23. Chirality in nuclearcollisions: ! experimental test! LHC! NICA, JINR Dubna!
- 24. Is there away to observe chirality fluctuations in a nuclear experiment?! Relativistic ions create! a strong magnetic field:! H! DK, McLerran, Warringa ‘07!
- 25. 47! Heavy ioncollisions: the strongest magnetic field ever achieved in the laboratory!
- 26. Charge asymmetry w.r.t.reaction plane as a signature of chirality! +! -! excess of positive charge! excess of negative charge! Electric dipole moment due to chiral imbalance! DK, Phys.Lett.B633(2006)260!
- 27. NB: P-even quantity(strength of P-odd fluctuations)!
- 28. In Brookhaven Collider,Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: February 15, 2010 Physicists said Monday that they had whacked a tiny region of space with enough energy to briefly distort the laws of physics, providing the first laboratory demonstration of the kind of process that scientists suspect has shaped cosmic history.! Atom smasher shows vacuum of space in a twist 17:27 15 February 2010 by Rachel Courtland! Quark Soup Physicists create conditions not seen since the big bang. Feb 16, 2010! 28! Sharon Begley! Scientists re-create high temperatures from Big Bang! Hottest Temperature Ever Heads Science to Big Bang!
- 29. The discovery ofDirac semimetals – 3D chiral materials! Z.K.Liu et al., Science 343 p.864 (Feb 21, 2014)! Ongoing experimental studies of Chiral Magnetic Effect!
- 30. Ongoing studies ofCME in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2! CME?! T. Liang et al., 14014.7749! and to appear in Science ! (September 2014)! ! S. Jeon et al., ! Nature Materials 13, ! 851–856 (2014)!
- 31. Chiral electronics! DKand H.Yee, Phys.Rev.B88(2013)115119;! G.Basar, DK and H.Yee, Phys.Rev.B89(2014)035142! Practical applications of Chiral Magnetic Effect: sensors,! quantum amplifiers, generators, …!
- 32. Chirality at thetip of a pencil: graphene!
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- 34. Graphene:! from thelab to! industrial! production!
- 35. Graphene: new generationof electronic devices!
- 36. “Graphene is animpending turning point in high tech as important as silicon and integrated circuitry were half a century ago.” !
- 37. Why is graphenevisible?!
- 38. Chirality in graphene left! right! E = v k v = 1/300 c! Massless, chiral particles! strong coupling to light !
- 39. Quantum tunneling ofchiral particles Left-handed! Chirality ! conservation! dictates 100%! wall penetration!! Right-handed! Right-handed!
- 40. Klein chiral tunneling O. Klein! 1894-1977!
- 41. Klein tunneling ingraphene
- 42. 42! The goal:fight the power ! dissipation using chirality! Geim group, 2013!
- 43. 43! Ultra-fast, low-power! optical information! processing;! graphene-based! photonic circuits!
- 44. Breaking the left-rightsymmetry! Circularly polarized! photoluminiscence:! coupling of light to currents! 44! Right! Left! T.Cao et al, Nature Comm 3 (2012) 887 !
- 45. Graphene and THz radia9on (T-‐rays): the “last fron9er” in electromagne9c spectrum non-ionizing!!
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- 47. THz cancer diagnos9cs Squamos cell carcinoma ! Tumor! Tumor! of the lung ! SONY Corp and Tokyo University! visible! THz!
- 48. Graphene-‐based devices for THz medical imaging
- 49. Integrated medical imaging device for precision surgical guidance
- 50. Cutting-edge science: fastand precise THz surgical guidance ! S.Nakajima et al., Advanced navigation in! neurosurgery!
- 51. Chirality in fundamental and applied science There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it. 51! Louis Pasteur!