MS-122: Structural chirality and spin properties of chiral matter

Co-Chairs: Roger Johnson & Vladimir Pomjakushin

Sponsoring Commission: Magnetic Structures

Co-Sponsoring Commission: Crystallography of Materials

Chirality is a fundamental symmetry concept that plays a crucial role in materials science and condensed matter physics. It can be defined for both crystal and magnetic subsystems, and the interplay between them is also an exciting topic. Magnetic interactions activated in chiral crystals often promote exotic ground states, such as long-period modulated magnetic structures, skyrmion lattices, and soliton lattices. This microsymposium will focus on spin ordering in chiral crystals and will include discussion of symmetry principles and microscopic mechanisms underlying the interplay between structural and magnetic chirality.