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The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect describes an observed correlation between the orientation of an electron spin transported or transferred through a molecule and that molecule's chirality. Suitable molecules are usually…

Molecular chirality and electron spin are intricately intertwined via the fascinating phenomenon of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), which has garnered considerable attention due to its extensive potential applications. A recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Ai-Min Guo , Yossi Paltiel , Qing-Feng Sun

For over two decades, the role of structural chirality in spin polarization has been widely investigated, with implications for the origins of life, catalysis, and quantum phenomena. Yet, it remains unclear whether all chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Pius M. Theiler , Sander Driessen , Matthew C. Beard

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes how chiral molecules and materials generate spin polarization even at thermal equilibrium. This observation has challenged established principles of microscopic reversibility and Onsager…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Pius M. Theiler , Matthew C. Beard

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a phenomenon wherein chiral structures selectively determine the spin polarization of electron currents flowing through the material, has garnered significant attention due to its potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) was recently observed in photo-excited donor-chiral bridge-acceptor molecules, but a predictive theory able to explain available experiments is still lacking. Here we show that low-energy torsional…

The physical origin of the so-called chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has puzzled experimental and theoretical researchers over the past few years. Early experiments were interpreted in terms of unconventional spin-orbit…

When an electron passes through a chiral molecule there is a high probability for a correlation between the momentum and spin of the charge, thus leading to spin polarized current. This phenomenon is known as the chiral induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Idan Meirzada , Nir Sukenik , Galya Haim , Shira Yochelis , Yossi Paltiel , Nir Bar-Gill

Recent progress in constructing supramolecular assemblies with hierarchical chirality offers new opportunities to investigate the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect and its potential applications. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Song Chen , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Xi Sun , Shu-Zheng Zhou , Hua-Hua Fu

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect demonstrates a strong coupling between electron spin and molecular chirality, enabling spin-controlled interactions between chiral molecules and magnetic surfaces. While CISS experiments…

Spintronic devices typically employ heterostructures with ferromagnets which break time-reversal symmetry and have non-vanishing magnetization. With the growing class of materials that support spin-polarized carriers, current, and…

The role of chirality in determining the spin dynamics of photoinduced electron transfer in donor-acceptor molecules remains an open question. Although chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been demonstrated in molecules bound to…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is an effect that has recently attracted a great deal of attention in chiral chemistry and that remains to be understood. In the CISS effect, electrons passing through chiral molecules acquire a…

We report chirality-induced current-in-plane magnetoresistance (CIP-MR) in chiral molecule/ferromagnetic metal bilayer at room temperature. The previously reported chiralityinduced current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR)…

Spintronics is an approach to electronics in which the spin of the electrons is exploited to control the electric resistance R of devices. One basic building block is the spin-valve, which is formed if two ferromagnetic electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sangeeta Sahoo , Takis Kontos , Jürg Furer , Christian Hoffmann , Matthias Gräber , Audrey Cottet , Christian Schönenberger

Chiral molecules have attracted significant multidisciplinary interest and extensive research owing to their remarkable ability to achieve charge-to-spin conversion, known as the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). A recent experiment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Tian-Yi Zhang , Peng-Yi Liu , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking phenomenon in which spin-unpolarized electrons become spin-polarized after traversing a chiral medium. Theoretical studies have shown that spin-orbit coupling, geometric chirality, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Lizhou Liu , Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

The origin and function of chirality in DNA, proteins, and other building blocks of life represent a central question in biology. Observations of spin polarization and magnetization associated with electron transport through chiral…

Chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes efficient spin filtering by chiral molecules. This phenomenon has led to nanoscale manipulation of quantum spins with promising applications to spintronics and quantum computing, since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiaopeng Li , Jue Nan , Xiangcheng Pan