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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…

Efficient generation of spin polarization is the central focus of spintronics. In magnetic materials, spin currents can arise from heat currents by the conventional spin Seebeck effect. Recently, chiral phonons with definite handedness and…

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Various device-based experiments have indicated that electron transfer in certain chiral molecules may be spin-dependent, a phenomenon known as the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect. However, due to the complexity of these…

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Bio-spinterfaces present numerous opportunities to study spintronics across the biomolecules attached to (ferro)magnetic electrodes. While it offers various exciting phenomena to investigate, it's simultaneously challenging to make stable…

We theoretically analyze spin filtering in two-terminal systems, induced by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), as a possible origin of the ``chirality-induced spin selectivity'' (CISS) effect observed experimentally in chiral molecules, such…

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Theoretical studies on spin-dependent transport through helical molecules with straight spiral geometry have received intense research interest in the past decade, however, the physics in circular helical molecules has still less been…

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Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a spin-splitting phenomenon from a helical structure with a considerably effective spin-orbit coupling. This unexpectedly large spin-splitting phenomenon has been experimentally observed in chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-08 Meng Xu , Yan Chen

Spin filtering is an essential operation in spintronics that allows creation and detection of spin polarized carriers. Transition metal ferromagnets are used as spin filters in most cases, though their spin filtering efficiency is only…

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Topological aspects of the geometry of DNA and similar chiral molecules have received a lot of attention, while the topology of their electronic structure is less explored. Previous experiments have revealed that DNA can efficiently filter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Jahyun Koo , Binghai Yan

Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve several one-dimensional models of tunneling electrons and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 S. Varela , M. Peralta , V. Mujica , B. Berche , E. Medina

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) has been shown to enhance magnetic sensitivity in radical pair mechanism (RPM) models under specific Hamiltonian conditions, yet whether these enhancements persist across a broader parameter space…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Tristen Gwynn , Betony Adams , Francesco Petruccione

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

Chiral molecular junctions offer a promising platform for realizing chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), where spin filtering occurs without external magnetic fields. Here, we investigate spin transport in such junctions by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu Wang , Ruihao Bi , Wei Liu , Jiayue Han , Wenjie Dou

The observation of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) in biological molecules still awaits a full theoretical explanation. In a recent Rapid Communication, Varela et al. [Phys. Rev. B 101, 241410(R) (2020)] presented a model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony , Yasuhiro Utsumi

Recent experiments have demonstrated the efficacy of chiral helically shaped molecules in polarizing the scattered electron spin, an effect termed as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). Here we solve a simple tight-binding model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Shlomi Matityahu , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

The discovery of the chiral induced spin selectivity effect has provided a novel tool to study how active physical and chemical mechanism may differ in chiral enantiomers, however, the origin of the effect itself is yet an open question. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a major experimental probe of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), yet it remains unclear whether the measured spin polarization reflects molecular chirality itself or the broader…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Amos Afugu , Gyanu P. Kafle , Zhen-Fei Liu

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…