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We report chirality-induced current-in-plane magnetoresistance (CIP-MR) in chiral molecule/ferromagnetic metal bilayer at room temperature. The previously reported chiralityinduced current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR)…

Electrically-induced electron spin polarization is imaged in n-type ZnSe epilayers using Kerr rotation spectroscopy. Despite no evidence for an electrically-induced internal magnetic field, current-induced in-plane spin polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Stern , S. Ghosh , G. Xiang , M. Zhu , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with…

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

We study ballistic transport of Dirac electrons through a strip in silicene, when the strip is exposed to off-resonant circularly polarized light and an electric field applied perpendicular to the silicene plane. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Yawar Mohammadi , Borhan Arghavani Nia

Chirality is an intriguing property of certain molecules, materials or artificial nanostructures, which allows them to interact with the spin angular momentum of the impinging light field. Due to their chiral geometry, they can distinguish…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Peter Banzer , Pawel Wozniak , Uwe Mick , Israel De Leon , Robert W. Boyd

Anomalous spin-Hall effects (SHE) and anomalous inverse spin-Hall effects (ISHE) are predicted when the order parameters are involved in the charge-spin interconversion. A spin current whose propagation and polarization are collinear and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 X. R. Wang

A pure spin current formed by opposite spins moving in opposite directions is a rank-2 axial tensor which breaks the inversion symmetry. Thus a spin current has a second-order optical susceptibility, with unique polarization-dependence…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-30 Jing Wang , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

Chiral circularly polarized (CP) light is central to many photonic technologies, from optical communication of spin information to novel display and imaging technologies. As such, there has been significant effort in the development of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Li Wan , Yizhou Liu , Matthew J. Fuchter , Binghai Yan

In this paper we outline a physically motivated framework for describing spin-selective recombination processes in chiral systems, from which we derive spin-selective reaction operators for recombination reactions of donor-bridge-acceptor…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Thomas P. Fay , David T. Limmer

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

We study an effective one-dimensional quantum model that includes friction and spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and show that the model exhibits spin polarization when both terms are finite. Most important, strong spin polarization can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Artem G. Volosniev , Hen Alpern , Yossi Paltiel , Oded Millo , Mikhail Lemeshko , Areg Ghazaryan

To realize Majorana fermions having novel physical features has been developed as a key while difficult task in topological superconductor. Here we have proposed another platform to generate Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which is constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

Direct and inverse spin Hall effects lie at the heart of novel applications that utilize spins of electrons as information carriers, allowing generation of spin currents and detecting them via the electric voltage. In the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Arunesh Roy , Marcos H. D. Guimarães , Jagoda Sławińska

Chirality is not just a structural artifact in biology but it may provide for a genuine biological advantage. This is due to the phenomenon of chiral interaction (CI) which is described here for mechanical-chiral devices. The main…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gideon Gilat

In the present work we theoretically analyze electroluminescence occurring in a biased single-molecule junction with a chiral bridge imitated by a helical chain. We show that optical transitions between electron states of the chiral linker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Natalya A Zimbovskaya

The theoretical possibility to use an electron microscope as a spin polarizer is studied. It turns out that a Bessel beam passing a standard magnetic objective lens is intrinsically spin polarized. In the limit of infinitely small detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Peter Schattschneider , Vincenzo Grillo

Controlling the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation enables the investigation of fundamental symmetry properties of matter through chiroptical processes. Many strategies have been developed to reveal structural or dynamical…