Left Handed Chirality (IMAGE)

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Left Handed Chirality

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The thumb and first two fingers on Tsvelik's hands show the relative orientations of three nearby electrons whose magnetic moments point at right angles to one another--like the x, y, z axes on a 3-D graph. In a "chiral spin liquid," physicists would expect to find such local ordering among electron's magnetic moments, and only one of the two possible chiral arrangements, without a definite global order.

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