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Whether chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) reflects coherent SU(2) spin rotation or incoherent spin-dependent filtering is a central unresolved question in molecular spintronics, with implications ranging from asymmetric chemistry to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Vishvendra S. Poonia

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), whereby helical molecules polarize the spin of electrical current, is an intriguing effect with potential applications in nanospintronics. In this nascent field, the study of paramagnetic chiral…

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

Chirality pervades multiple scientific domains-physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy-and profoundly influences their foundational principles. Recently, the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) phenomenon has captured significant…

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Xie , Dinghui Wang , Chao Li , Xiaofan Shen , Junting Zhang

Organic materials are known to feature long spin-diffusion times, originating in a generally small spin-orbit coupling observed in these systems. From that perspective, chiral molecules acting as efficient spin selectors pose a puzzle, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Areg Ghazaryan , Yossi Paltiel , Mikhail Lemeshko

Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since electrical reading of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Imara Lima Fernandes , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

To realize Majorana fermions having novel physical features has been developed as a key while difficult task in topological superconductor. Here we have proposed another platform to generate Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which is constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

Recent studies have demonstrated that magnetization switching in ferromagnets can be achieved through adsorbing chiral molecules on the surface without the need for current or external magnetic fields, offering a low-power mechanism for…

The interplay between chirality and magnetism has been a source of fascination among scientists for over a century. In recent years, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has attracted renewed interest. It has been observed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Mohammad Reza Safari , Frank Matthes , Claus M. Schneider , Karl-Heinz Ernst , Daniel E. Bürgler

Radical pairs in the flavoprotein cryptochrome are central to various magnetically sensitive biological processes, including the proposed mechanism of avian magnetoreception. Cryptochrome's molecular chirality has been hypothesized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Luke D. Smith , Sukesh Tallapudi , Matt C. J. Denton , Daniel R. Kattnig

We observe and model spin currents arising from chirality and effective spin-exchange interactions in a weakly interacting $^6$Li Fermi gas. Chirality is introduced by a static displacement between the center of the trapped atoms and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Camen A. Royse , J. E. Thomas

The control of electron spin, which is crucial to the stability of matter, offers new possibilities for manipulating the properties of molecules and materials with potential applications in spintronics and chemical reactions. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Nguyen Thanh Phuc

Chirality is not just a structural artifact in biology but it may provide for a genuine biological advantage. This is due to the phenomenon of chiral interaction (CI) which is described here for mechanical-chiral devices. The main…

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Chiral matter has a structure that lacks inversion, mirror, and rotoreflection symmetry; thus, a given chiral material has either a right- or left-handed structure. In chiral matter, electricity and magnetism can be coupled in an exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Tetsuya Furukawa , Yuta Watanabe , Naoki Ogasawara , Kaya Kobayashi , Tetsuaki Itou

Time-reversal symmetric charge and spin transport through a molecule comprising two-orbital channels and connected to two leads is analyzed. It is demonstrated that spin-resolved currents are generated when spin-flip processes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Molecular chirality interacting in a non-negligible manner with the spin angular momentum of subatomic particles, mainly electrons or photons, is the cause of a variety of spin-dependent filtering effects in quantum transport. Among them,…

This work investigates electron transport through chiral electrostatic potentials by modeling the system in three spatial dimensions and demonstrates that chirality-induced orbital selectivity (CIOS) produces pronounced enantiospecific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Namgee Cho , James Lim , Martin B. Plenio

Chiral materials have attracted significant research interests as they exhibit intriguing physical properties, such as chiral optical response, spin-momentum locking and chiral induced spin selectivity. Recently, layered transition metal…

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla