Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Signatures of a material object's broken inversion symmetry within its intrinsic excitations and associated optical fields have largely evaded characterization from a perspective that evenly accounts for the inseparability between matter and field dynamics. Here, we formulate a complex-valued pseudoscalar chirality metric that is derived from the coupled electromagnetic and material governing equations, and demonstrate its resolution of the excitational chirality exhibited by the eigenmodes and eigenfields of a family of structurally chiral objects, including those with chirally connected enantiomeric states.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: University of Washington
Language: English
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212968871