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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…

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…

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, a phenomenon where the chirality of molecules imparts significant spin selectivity to electron transfer processes, has garnered increasing interest among the chemistry, biology, and physics…

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

Despite generally lacking ferromagnetic properties or strong spin-orbit coupling, electrons in chiral molecules exhibit unique spin-dependent transport behavior, known as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). This phenomenon implies a…

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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…

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Spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a range of spin-charge interconversion phenomena in non-magnetic systems where certain spatial symmetries are reduced or absent. Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a term that generically refers to…

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Chirality describes the asymmetry between an object and its mirror image and manifests itself in diverse functionalities across all scales of matter - from molecules and aggregates to thin films and bulk chiral materials. A particularly…

Chiral molecules are known to preferentially select electrons with a particular spin state, an effect termed chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). In this work, the transient CISS dynamics in a chiral molecule are investigated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Riley Stuermer , Collin VanEssen , Jacob Byers , Keith Ferrer , Prasad Gudem , Diego Kienle , Jonas Fransson , Mani Vaidyanathan

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…

In the past decade, chiral materials have drawn significant attention because it is widely claimed that they can act as spin injectors/detectors due to the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. Nevertheless, the microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Sytze H. Tirion , Bart J. van Wees

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

Here we review a universal model for chirally induced spin-selectivity (CISS) as a standalone effect occurring in chiral molecules. We tie together the results of forward scattering in the gas phase to the results for photoelectrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Miguel Mena , Solmar Varela , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

Significant attention has been drawn to electronic transport in chiral materials coupled to ferromagnets in the chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. A large magnetoresistance (MR) is usually observed which is widely interpreted…

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The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), demonstrated in diverse chiral molecules by numerous experimental and theoretical groups, has been attracting extensive and ongoing interest in recent years. As the secondary structure of DNA,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Pei-Jia Hu , Si-Xian Wang , Xiao-Hui Gao , Yan-Yang Zhang , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

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

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Subhajit Sarkar , Amos Sharoni , Oliver L. A. Monti , Yonatan Dubi

The combination of semiconducting properties and synthetically tunable chirality in chiral metal halide semiconductors (CMHS) offer a compelling platform for room temperature control over electronic spin properties, leveraging effects such…

The Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect describes the ability of chiral molecules and crystals to transmit spin-polarized currents, a phenomenon first identified in 1999. Although this effect holds great promise for a broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Sushant Kumar Behera , Ruggero Sala , Abhirup Roy Karmakar , Matteo Moioli , Rocco Martinazzo , Matteo Cococcioni

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking quantum phenomenon in which electron transport through chiral molecules leads to spin polarization -- even in the absence of external magnetic fields or magnetic components. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Shiv Upadhyay , Xuechen Zheng , Tian Wang , Agam Shayit , Jun Liu , Dali Sun , Xiaosong Li