  Scalar spin chirality, a three-body spin correlation that breaks
time-reversal symmetry, is revealed to couple directly to circularly polarized
laser. This is shown by the Floquet formalism for the periodically driven
repulsive Hubbard model with a strong-coupling expansion. A systematic
derivation of the effective low-energy Hamiltonian for a spin degree of freedom
reveals that the coupling constant for scalar spin chirality can become
significant for a situation in which the driving frequency and the on-site
interaction are comparable. This implies that the scalar chirality can be
induced by circularly polarized lights, or that it can be used conversely for
probing the chirality in Mott insulators as a circular dichroism.
