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The spin activity in macromolecules such as DNA and oligopeptides, in the context of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) has been proposed to be due to the atomic Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) and the associated chiral symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Alexander López , Solmar Varela , Ernesto Medina

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

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…

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

Chiral materials exhibit a spin filtering effect, so-called chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). A recent observation of spin accumulation at the ends of a chiral-structured superconductor has opened up a new pathway for studying the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-12 Keito Hara , Youichi Yanase

The observation of spin-dependent transmission of electrons through chiral molecules has led to the discovery of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). The remarkably high efficiency of the spin polarizing effect has recently gained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Ashish Moharana , Yael Kapon , Fabian Kammerbauer , David Anthofer , Shira Yochelis , Mathias Kläui , Yossi Paltiel , Angela Wittmann

We provide a critical overview of the theory of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, i.e., phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to various electron processes. Based on…

The interaction between electron spin and molecular chirality plays a fundamental role in quantum phenomena, with significant implications for spintronics and quantum computing. The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where…

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

The spin-selective transport through helical molecules has been a hot topic in condensed matter physics, because it develops a new research direction in spintronics, \emph{i.e.}, chiro-spintronics. Double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Gui-Fang Du , Hua-Hua Fu , Ruqian Wu

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 last decade, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been attracting extensive interest. However, there still exists a large gap between experiments and quantitative theoretical results, and the microscopic mechanism of CISS,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Chenchen Wang , Zeng-Ren Liang , Xiao-Feng Chen , Ai-Min Guo , Guanghao Ji , Qing-Feng Sun , Yong Yan

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

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

Recent research discovered that charge transfer processes in chiral molecules can be spin selective and named the effect chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). Follow-up work studied hybrid spintronic devices with conventional electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Xu Yang , Tom Bosma , Bart J. van Wees , Caspar H. van der Wal

Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

We analyse the appearance of a mechanical torque that acts on a chiral molecule: a single-stranded DNA, in which the spin-orbit interaction is expected to induce a spin-selectivity effect. The mechanical torque is shown to appear as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 N. Sasao , H. Okada , Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Recent observations of considerable spin polarization in photoemission from metal surfaces through monolayers of chiral molecules were followed by several efforts to rationalize the results as the effect of spin-orbit interaction that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joel Gersten , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Abraham Nitzan

Electron transfer (ET) in biological molecules such as peptides and proteins consists of electrons moving between well defined localized states (donors to acceptors) through a tunneling process. Here we present an analytical model for ET by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Solmar Varela , Iskra Zambrano , Bertrand Berche , Vladimiro Mujica , Ernesto Medina