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The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…
Understanding possible mechanisms, which can lead to suppression of helical edge transport in Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) systems, attracted huge attention right after the first experiments revealing the fragility of the ballistic conductance.…
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…
We study thermal transport along the edge of a small chiral-spin-liquid device coupled to two Ising-chain reservoirs, a platform suitable for quantum-engineered systems. Adiabatically switching on the tunnel couplings to the reservoirs…
A general form of the Hamiltonian for electrons confined to a curved one-dimensional (1D) channel with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in momentum is rederived and is applied to a U-shaped channel. Discretizing the derived continuous 1D…
The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has garnered significant interest in the field of molecular spintronics due to its potential for creating spin-polarized electrons without the need for a magnet. Recent studies devoted to…
We investigate numerically the spin properties of electrons in flakes made of materials described by the Dirac equation, at the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit-coupling(SOC). We show that electrons flowing along the borders of flakes via…
Chiral phonons offer a route to transfer angular momentum without relying on magnetic order, but their electronic response in metals remains poorly understood from perspectives beyond spin-based scenarios. Using first-principles…
Chirality-induced spin selectivity has been reported in many experiments, but a generally accepted theoretical explanation has not yet been proposed. Here, we introduce a simple model system of a straight cylindrical free-electron wire,…
The effect of spin-disorder scattering on perpendicular transport in a magnetic monolayer is considered within the single-site Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA). The exchange interaction between a conduction electron and localized…
Recently there has been much interest in the chirality induced spin selectivity effect, whereby electron spin polarisation, which is dependent on the molecular chirality, is produced in electrode-molecule electron transfer processes.…
Phonons can carry angular momentum and exhibit chirality through the circular polarization of atomic motion. This enables a phonon-mediated spin Seebeck effect (SSE) via the conversion of phonon angular momentum into electron spin angular…
We consider electrical transport through molecules with Heisenberg-coupled spins arranged in a ring structure in the presence of an easy-axis anisotropy. The molecules are coupled to two metallic leads and a gate. In the charged state of…
We propose a spin transport induced by inertial motion. Our system is composed of two host media and a narrow vacuum gap in between. One of the hosts is sliding at a constant speed relative to the other. This mechanical motion causes the…
Recent advances in synthetic quantum matter allow researchers to design quantum models inaccessible in traditional materials. Here, we propose protocols to engineer a new class of quantum spin models, which we call spin Kitaev models. The…
The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, whereby chiral molecules preferentially transmit electrons of one spin orientation, remains one of the most intriguing and debated phenomena at the interface of spintronics, molecular…
We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…
The chirality induced spin selectivity effect remains a challenge to capture with theoretical modeling. While at least a decade was spent on independent electron models, which completely fail to reproduce the experimental results, the…
The generation of unidirectional motion has been a long-standing challenge in engineering of molecular motors. Here, a mechanism driving the rotation is presented based on electron current through helical orbitals on a $\pi$-bonded carbon…
Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…