Chirality conservation in vacuum-like medium

What is it about?

This paper is special because it builds a new unified framework connecting chirality, electrodynamics, and superconductivity, introduces genuinely new conservation laws, and offers a conceptual leap by treating a superconductor as a vacuum-like medium where chirality conservation plays a fundamental role.

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Why is it important?

The importance of this work is that it introduces a new conservation principle (chirality) into the foundations of electrodynamics, redefines vacuum and superconductivity, and opens practical applications in advanced materials, optics, and quantum devices. Chirality is important because it represents a fundamental asymmetry of nature that governs interactions from the subatomic scale (neutrinos, weak force) to the molecular scale (DNA, proteins) and up to macroscopic systems (light, superconductors, metamaterials). In Arbab’s work, its importance is elevated further: chirality is treated as a conserved physical quantity, potentially as fundamental as energy or momentum.

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