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Chiral induced spin selectivity is a phenomenon that has been attributed to chirality, spin-orbit interactions, and non-equilibrium conditions, while the role of electron exchange and correlations have been investigated only marginally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Fransson

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been extensively studied over the past two decades. While current-induced spin polarization in chiral molecules is widely recognized as the fundamental principle of the CISS, only a few studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Kouta Kondou , Shinji Miwa , Daigo Miyajima

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to an ability to induce a spin polarization of an electron transmitted through chiral materials. An important experimental observation is that incredibly large spin polarization is realized…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Akihito Kato , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto , Jun-ichiro Kishine

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

Electron exchange and correlations emerging from the coupling between ionic vibrations and electrons are addressed. Spin-dependent electron-phonon coupling originates from the spin-orbit interaction, and it is shown that such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Fransson

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

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) enables spin selectivity of charge carriers in chiral molecular systems without magnetic materials. While spin selectivity has been widely investigated, its quantum coherence has not yet been explored.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Hanna T. Fridman , Rotem Malkinson , Amir Hen , Shira Yochelis , Yossi Paltiel , Nir Bar-gill

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…

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

Biological molecules chose one of two structurally, chiral systems which are related by reflection in a mirror. It is proposed that this choice was made, causally, by magnetically polarized and physically chiral cosmic-rays, which are known…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-11 Noemie Globus , Roger D. Blandford

Chirality, or handedness, enters astrophysics in three distinct ways. Magnetic field and vortex lines tend to be helical and have a systematic twist in the northern and southern hemispheres of a star or a galaxy. Helicity is here driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-06 Axel Brandenburg

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

Chirally Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) is a transport phenomenon observed in both linear and non-linear regimes, where the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) acts as the key driver and electron tunneling serves as the dominant mechanism for charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Miguel Mena , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

The chiral puzzle of biological molecules is thought to be closely related to the origin of life and is still a mystery so far. Previously, we proposed a new model on the origin of life, Nebula-Relay hypothesis, which assumed that the life…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Lei Feng

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…

Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in which a symmetry between left- and right-handed objects is broken, examples in nature ranging from subatomic particles and molecules to living organisms. In particle physics, the weak force is…

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 unique biosignature of life on Earth is the homochirality of organic compounds such as amino acids, proteins, and sugars. High-energy spin-polarized (spin-up or spin-down) electrons (SPEs) from the $\beta$ decay of radioactive nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-26 Thiem Hoang

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

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

Most animal body plans have some degree of left-right asymmetry. This chirality at the tissue and organ level is often assumed to originate from the intrinsic handedness of biological molecules. How this handedness might be transferred from…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-30 Jeremy Hadidjojo , David K. Lubensky