“…The helical media, i.e., the media with permittivity tensor invariant under rotation and simultaneous shift along the rotation axis, are ubiquitous in nature and can be artificially fabricated down to nanometer scale and below. Some of the examples of such media are cholesteric liquid crystals, chiral nematics and smectics [12,[15][16][17][18], Q-plates [12,14,19,[21][22][23], certain types of chiral metamaterials and chiral sculptured thin films [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], and helical defects in ordered media [36][37][38][39]. Various aspects of the electromagnetic properties of these structures were thoroughly investigated [12, 14-17, 19, 20, 24, 25] but the complete quantum theory of scattering of photons by such structures of a general form has not been constructed yet, especially for scattering of twisted photons.…”