A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap
Abstract
Chiral degrees of freedom occur in matter and in electromagnetic fields and constitute an area of research that is experiencing renewed interest driven by recent observations of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in chiral molecules and engineered nanomaterials. The CISS effect underpins the fact that charge transport through nanoscopic chiral structures favors a particular electronic spin orientation, resulting in large room-temperature spin polarizations. Observations of the CISS effect suggest opportunities for spin control and for the design and fabrication of room-temperature quantum devices from the bottom up, with atomic-scale precision. Any technology that relies on optimal charge transport, including quantum devices for logic, sensing, and storage, may benefit from chiral quantum properties. These properties can be theoretically and experimentally investigated from a quantum information perspective, which is presently lacking. There are uncharted implications for the quantum sciences once chiral couplings can be engineered to control the storage, transduction, and manipulation of quantum information. This forward-looking perspective provides a survey of the experimental and theoretical fundamentals of chiral-influenced quantum effects, and presents a vision for their future roles in enabling room-temperature quantum technologies.
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@article{arxiv.2009.00136,
title = {A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap},
author = {Clarice D. Aiello and Muneer Abbas and John M. Abendroth and Andrei Afanasev and Shivang Agarwal and Amartya S. Banerjee and David N. Beratan and Jason N. Belling and Bertrand Berche and Antia Botana and Justin R. Caram and Giuseppe Luca Celardo and Gianaurelio Cuniberti and Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri and Arezoo Dianat and Ismael Diez-Perez and Yuqi Guo and Rafael Gutierrez and Carmen Herrmann and Joshua Hihath and Suneet Kale and Philip Kurian and Ying-Cheng Lai and Alexander Lopez and Ernesto Medina and Vladimiro Mujica and Ron Naaman and Mohammadreza Noormandipour and Julio L. Palma and Yossi Paltiel and William T. Petuskey and Joao Carlos Ribeiro-Silva and Juan Jose Saenz and Elton J. G. Santos and Maria Solyanik and Volker J. Sorger and Dominik M. Stemer and Jesus M. Ugalde and Ana Valdes-Curiel and Solmar Varela and David H. Waldeck and Paul S. Weiss and Helmut Zacharias and Qing Hua Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00136},
year = {2022}
}