{"id":246945,"date":"2026-11-09T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/chirality-of-trions-illuminates-new-paths-for-quantum-optics"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:39:52","slug":"chirality-of-trions-illuminates-new-paths-for-quantum-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/chirality-of-trions-illuminates-new-paths-for-quantum-optics","title":{"rendered":"Chirality of \u2018trions\u2019 illuminates new paths for quantum optics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that charged states made of two electrons and a positively charged hole (or vice versa) on atomically thin rolls of carbon atoms have a structure-derived \u201chandedness\u201d in how they interact with light. While electron-hole pairs, or \u201cexcitons,\u201d were known to keep the chirality of the underlying nanotube, the team showed that adding a charge to create \u201ctrions\u201d does not change this property.<\/p>\n<p>Their work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-78073-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, highlights new ways in which carbon nanotubes might be used in next-gen optoelectronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Chirality is a fascinating feature of the material world. Whether it be a circular staircase, a wrung towel, double-stranded DNA or pharmaceutical molecules, an object can often have a \u201chandedness\u201d which means that its mirror image can never be matched to the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that charged states made of two electrons and a positively charged hole (or vice versa) on atomically thin rolls of carbon atoms have a structure-derived \u201chandedness\u201d in how they interact with light. While electron-hole pairs, or \u201cexcitons,\u201d were known to keep the chirality of the underlying nanotube, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}