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AbstractChirality with all broken mirror symmetries matters ubiquitously from DNA functionality, vine climbing, to the piezoelectricity of quartz crystals. Magnetic chirality means chirality in spin-ordered states or (atomic-scale or mesoscopic) spin textures. Magnetic chirality does not change with time-reversal operation, and chirality prime ($${\mathcal{C}}^\prime$$
C
′
) means that time-reversal symmetry in addition to all mirror symmetries is broken with free spatial rotations. We will discuss a few examples of magnetic chirality and $${\mathcal{C}}^\prime$$
C
′
, and their emergent physical properties. Some of these exotic properties have been recently observed, and many of them need to be experimentally confirmed.
Title: Magnetic chirality
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AbstractChirality with all broken mirror symmetries matters ubiquitously from DNA functionality, vine climbing, to the piezoelectricity of quartz crystals.
Magnetic chirality means chirality in spin-ordered states or (atomic-scale or mesoscopic) spin textures.
Magnetic chirality does not change with time-reversal operation, and chirality prime ($${\mathcal{C}}^\prime$$
C
′
) means that time-reversal symmetry in addition to all mirror symmetries is broken with free spatial rotations.
We will discuss a few examples of magnetic chirality and $${\mathcal{C}}^\prime$$
C
′
, and their emergent physical properties.
Some of these exotic properties have been recently observed, and many of them need to be experimentally confirmed.
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