Chiral asymmetry can emerge from maximal symmetry

Chiral asymmetry can emerge from maximal symmetry: Chirality normally occurs when different types of particle or atoms combine into complex molecules. Researchers at Chalmers have now, however, demonstrated something completely new in the field of physics: chirality can occur spontaneously, even in systems that comprise only a single type of basic, spherically symmetric particle. This means that it doesn’t matter how the particles are rotated in relation to one another. The forces acting between the particles depend only on the distance between them.