A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality). The spin of a particle may be used to...

Chirality /kaɪˈrælɪtiː/ is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ (kheir)...

chirality (inherent chirality). These types of chirality are far less common than central chirality. BINOL is a typical example of an axially chiral molecule...

America. ISBN 0-521-66254-0. Symmetry, Chirality, Symmetry Measures and Chirality Measures: General Definitions Chiral Polyhedra by Eric W. Weisstein, The...

helicity is equivalent to the chirality operator multiplied by ⁠1/2⁠ħ. By contrast, for massive particles, distinct chirality states (e.g., as occur in the...

Look up chirality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chirality (handedness) is a property of asymmetry. Chirality may also refer to: Chirality (chemistry)...

The asymmetric atom is called a chirality center, a type of stereocenter. A chirality center is also called a chiral center or an asymmetric center. Some...

Planar chirality, also known as 2D chirality, is the special case of chirality for two dimensions. Most fundamentally, planar chirality is a mathematical...

formulation) Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix Strong CP problem and chirality (physics) Chiral symmetry breaking and quark matter Quark flavour tagging, such...

Chien-Shiung Wu, the weak interaction is chiral and thus provides a means for probing chirality in physics. In her experiment, Wu took advantage of the...

electron's spin responds to the field. Chirality (physics) Dynamic nuclear polarization Helicity (particle physics) Holstein–Primakoff transformation Kramers'...

Handedness may also refer to: Chirality, Greek for handedness, used to describe similar concepts in other fields: Chirality (chemistry), a property of molecules...

would have continuously changed the chirality of reaction networks by a mechanism they termed punctuated chirality. This suggests that the origin of homochirality...

of quantized vortices attached to them. Anyon, 2D quasiparticles Chirality (physics), left-handed and right-handed Fermionic condensate Weyl semimetal...

In theoretical physics, a chiral anomaly is the anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current. In everyday terms, it is equivalent to a sealed box that...

left-handed chirality, and all antineutrinos right-handed. (See Chirality (physics) § Chirality and helicity for the difference.) Chirality is a fundamental...

either aligned (right-handed chirality), or counter-aligned (left-handed chirality), with their momenta. In this case the chirality is a conserved quantum number...

intrinsic 3d chirality. Intrinsic means that the chirality is a property of the object. In most contexts, materials described as chiral have intrinsic...

weak interactions as chirality eigenstates. Chirality of a massive particle is not a constant of motion; helicity is, but the chirality operator does not...

physics, the chiral model, introduced by Feza Gürsey in 1960, is a phenomenological model describing effective interactions of mesons in the chiral limit...

neither 2D nor 3D intrinsic chirality. Plum and colleagues investigated magneto-electric coupling due to extrinsic chirality, where the arrangement of a...

Chiral symmetry breaking is an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking affecting the chiral symmetry of the strong interactions in particle physics....

counterclockwise Normal left rotation = clockwise Handedness Chirality (physics), Chirality (chemistry) Inner/outer orientation Optical isomerism Retrograde...

Homochirality is a uniformity of chirality, or handedness. Objects are chiral when they cannot be superposed on their mirror images. For example, the left...

The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions...

clockwise and anticlockwise in physics) or simply use left and right (as in anatomy). Relative direction and chirality are distinct concepts. Relative...

example of smectic LCs is p,p'-dinonylazobenzene. The chiral nematic phase exhibits chirality (handedness). This phase is often called the cholesteric...

application in high energy physics, particle physics and accelerator physics, as well as atomic physics, chemistry and condensed matter physics. Non-relativistic...

additional interaction between the chirality of the wave and the chirality of the molecules. Where their chiralities are the same, there will be a small...

known as optical chirality (up to a factor of 1/2). The quantity Z 0 {\displaystyle {Z}^{0}} is the spatial density of optical chirality, while Z {\displaystyle...