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We argue that strain applied to a time-reversal and inversion breaking Weyl semi-metal in a magnetic field can induce an electric current via the chiral magnetic effect. A tight binding model is used to show that strain generically changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Alberto Cortijo , Dmitri Kharzeev , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

In this work we manifest that an electrostatic disorder in conducting systems with broken time reversal symmetry universally leads to a chiral ordering of the electron gas giving rise to skyrmion-like textures in spatial distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

Chiral materials are the ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry, relativistic effects, and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been intensively studied to electrically generate…

We investigate long-range chiral magnetic interactions among adatoms mediated by surface states spin-splitted by spin-orbit coupling. Using the Rashba model, the tensor of exchange interactions is extracted wherein a pseudo-dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Abdelhamid Ziane , Mouloud Benakki , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

For certain non-magnetic solids with low symmetry the occurrence of spin-polarized longitudinal currents is predicted. These arise due to an interplay of spin-orbit interaction and the particular crystal symmetry. This result is derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Wimmer , M. Seemann , K. Chadova , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

We consider the possibility to extract spins that are generated by an electric current in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (R2DEG) in the Hall geometry. To this end, we discuss boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 I. Adagideli , M. Scheid , M. Wimmer , G. E. W. Bauer , K. Richter

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

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

Chiral semiconductors such as elemental tellurium (Te) exhibit unconventional spin textures and large charge-to-spin conversion efficiencies, yet the influence of introducing elements on these properties remains underexplored. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Sonam Phuntsho

The phenomenon of Spin Hall Effect (SHE) generates a pure spin current transverse to an applied current in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, although not detectable through conventional electrical measurement. An intuitive Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Soumik Aon , Abu Bakkar Miah , Arpita Mandal , Harekrishna Bhunia , Dhananjaya Mahapatra , Partha Mitra

The influence of the electrons interaction with longitudinal acoustic phonons on magnetoeletric and spin-related transport effects are investigated. The physical system under consideration has been assumed to be a two dimensional electron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-02 K. Hasanirokh , A. Phirouznia

The newly discovered two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors such as CrI$_3$ have triggered a surge of interest stemming from their exotic spin-dependent properties and potential applications in spintronics and magneto-optoelectronics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-12 Sukanya Ghosh , Natasa Stojic , Nadia Binggeli

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

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

Among noncentrosymmetric structures, chirality has recently been recognized as a novel source of asymmetrical charge/spin transports as exemplified by electrical magnetochiral anisotropy (EMChA) and chirality-induced spin selectivity.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-29 Takuro Sato , Hiroshi Goto , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

Phonons can carry angular momentum and exhibit chirality through the circular polarization of atomic motion. This enables a phonon-mediated spin Seebeck effect (SSE) via the conversion of phonon angular momentum into electron spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiayan Zhang , Gaoyang Li , Gaomin Tang , Yanxia Xing

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…

The spin Hall effect of light attracted enormous attention in the literature due to the ongoing progress in developing of new optically active materials and metamaterials with non-trivial spin-orbit interaction. Recently, it was shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-01 Xu-Guang Huang , Andrey V. Sadofyev

$\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is a promising candidate material for the Kitaev spin liquid state where the half quantization of the thermal Hall effect, suggesting a topological character, has been observed. However, its relation to the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Daichi Takikawa , Masahiko G. Yamada , Satoshi Fujimoto

Even though chiral nematic phases were the first liquid crystals experimentally observed more than a century ago, the origin of the thermodynamic stability of cholesteric states is still unclear. In this Letter we address the problem by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-05 S. Belli , S. Dussi , M. Dijkstra , R. van Roij