Alexei Tsvelik, DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Alexei Tsvelik, DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Alexei Tsvelik, a theoretical physicist at Brookhaven Lab, uses his hands to demonstrate two different chiral arrangements of three nearby electrons' magnetic moments. This idea of chirality, or handedness, is also used to describe mirror-image orientations of atoms in molecules, as shown on Tsvelik's computer screen.

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