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Chirality induced spin selectivity, discovered about two decades ago in helical molecules, is a non-equilibrium effect that emerges from the interplay between geometrical helicity and spin-orbit interactions. Several model Hamiltonians…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 J. Fransson

Chirality-induced spin selectivity has been reported in many experiments, but a generally accepted theoretical explanation has not yet been proposed. Here, we introduce a simple model system of a straight cylindrical free-electron wire,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Richard Korytár , Ferdinand Evers

We here present a variable-range hopping model to describe the chirality-induced spin selectivity along the DNA double helix. In this model, DNA is considered as a one-dimensional disordered system, where electrons are transported by chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ryotaro Sano , Takeo Kato

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) describes the emergence of spin-polarized electron transport in chiral systems without magnetic fields, a remarkable effect in light-element materials with weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

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

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

Spin dependent recombination in GaAsN offers many interesting possibilities in the design of spintronic devices mostly due to its astounding capability to reach conduction band electron spin polarizations close to 100% at room temperature.…

Chiral molecules are known to preferentially select electrons with a particular spin state, an effect termed chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). In this work, the transient CISS dynamics in a chiral molecule are investigated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Riley Stuermer , Collin VanEssen , Jacob Byers , Keith Ferrer , Prasad Gudem , Diego Kienle , Jonas Fransson , Mani Vaidyanathan

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

A new way of getting controlled spin dependent transport through a two-terminal bridge setup is explored. The system comprises a magnetic quantum ring which is directly coupled to a magnetic quantum wire and subjected to an in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Santanu K. Maiti

Quasi-optical experiments are emerging as a powerful technique to probe magnetic transitions in molecular spin systems. However, the simultaneous presence of the electric- and magnetic-dipole induced transitions poses the challenge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Filippo Troiani , Athanassios K. Boudalis

Biomolecules that constitute life on Earth are chiral, but the precise mechanism by which homochirality emerged remains a mystery. In this work it is demonstrated that reactions of radical pairs, where one of the radical electron spins is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Thomas P Fay

The effect of exchange interactions within spin pairs on spin-dependent transport and recombination rates through localized states in semiconductors during coherent electron spin resonant excitation is studied theoretically. It is shown…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-09 A. Gliesche , C. Michel , V. Rajevac , K. Lips , S. D. Baranovskii , F. Gebhard , C. Boehme

Radical pair recombination reactions are normally described using a quantum mechanical master equation for the electronic and nuclear spin density operator. The electron spin state selective (singlet and triplet) recombination processes are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Thomas P. Fay , Lachlan P. Lindoy , David E. Manolopoulos

Spin dependent transport in a multi-terminal mesoscopic ring is investigated in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Within a tight-binding framework we use a general spin density matrix formalism to evaluate all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , Sreekantha Sil , S. N. Karmakar

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

Spin-polarization is known to lead to important {\it magnetic} and {\it optical} effects in open-shell atoms and elemental solids, but has rarely been implicated in controlling {\it structural} selectivity in compounds and alloys. Here we…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Z. W. Lu , B. M. Klein , A. Zunger

A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov , P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Odnoblyudov , V. M. Chistyakov , S. A. Tarasenko , I. N. Yassievich

Spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a range of spin-charge interconversion phenomena in non-magnetic systems where certain spatial symmetries are reduced or absent. Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a term that generically refers to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 W. Dednam , M. A. García-Blázquez , Linda A. Zotti , E. B. Lombardi , C. Sabater , S. Pakdel , J. J. Palacios

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