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Organic materials are known to feature long spin-diffusion times, originating in a generally small spin-orbit coupling observed in these systems. From that perspective, chiral molecules acting as efficient spin selectors pose a puzzle, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Areg Ghazaryan , Yossi Paltiel , Mikhail Lemeshko

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

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

The chiral(ity)-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where electrons passing through a chiral medium acquire significant spin-polarization at ambient temperatures, has been widely observed experimentally, yet its theoretical foundations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yan Xi Foo , Aisha Kermiche , Farhan T. Chowdhury , Clarice D. Aiello , Luke D. Smith

Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan

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

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), demonstrated in diverse chiral molecules by numerous experimental and theoretical groups, has been attracting extensive and ongoing interest in recent years. As the secondary structure of DNA,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Pei-Jia Hu , Si-Xian Wang , Xiao-Hui Gao , Yan-Yang Zhang , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

In connection to the chiral-induced spin-selectivity (CISS) effect, we theoretically analyze the electronic and spin states of edges of a finite $p$-orbital helical atomic chain with the intra-atomic spin-orbit interaction (SOI). This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Takemitsu Kato , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Here we propose a mechanism by which spin polarization can be generated dynamically in chiral molecular systems undergoing photo-induced electron transfer. The proposed mechanism explains how spin polarization emerges in systems where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-19 Thomas P. Fay , David T. Limmer

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

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) was recently observed in photo-excited donor-chiral bridge-acceptor molecules, but a predictive theory able to explain available experiments is still lacking. Here we show that low-energy torsional…

Electrical generation and transduction of polarized electron spins in semiconductors are of central interest in spintronics and quantum information science. While spin generation in semiconductors has been frequently realized via electrical…

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

Time-reversal symmetric charge and spin transport through a molecule comprising two-orbital channels and connected to two leads is analyzed. It is demonstrated that spin-resolved currents are generated when spin-flip processes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

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

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-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

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

We present a non-perturbative theory that describes how light regulates chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) from the perspective of strong light-matter interactions. The research results indicate that 1) light can have opposite effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Wei Liu , Jingqi Chen , Wenjie Dou