mirror symmetry
Britishnoun
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"We found that the diffraction patterns themselves become chiral because the structure lacks mirror symmetry," explains senior author Masaya Notomi.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Quarks in the Looking Glass: A recent experiment at Jefferson Lab probed the mirror symmetry of quarks.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2014
Maxim Konstevich — For numerous contributions which have taken the fruitful interaction between modern theoretical physics and mathematics to new heights, including the development of homological mirror symmetry, and the study of wall-crossing phenomena.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2012
In the late 1950s, physicists discovered that neutrinos, unlike anything else in the universe known until then, appeared to violate mirror symmetry.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2011
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