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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

A minimal model is exactly solved for electron spin transport on a helix. Electron transport is assumed to be supported by well oriented $p_z$ type orbitals on base molecules forming a staircase of definite chirality. In a tight binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Ernesto Medina , Luis A. González-Arraga , Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro , Bertrand Berche , Vladimiro Mujica

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

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an {\alpha}-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with spin polarization of the transmitted electrons. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nguyen T. N. Ha , L. Rasabathina , O. Hellwig , A. Sharma , G. Salvan , S. Yochelis , Y. Paltiel , L. T. Baczewski , C. Tegenkamp

Chiral quantum optics has attracted considerable interest in the field of quantum information science. Exploiting the spin-polarization properties of quantum emitters and engineering rational photonic nanostructures has made it possible to…

We provide a critical overview of the theory of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, i.e., phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to various electron processes. Based on…

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking phenomenon in which spin-unpolarized electrons become spin-polarized after traversing a chiral medium. Theoretical studies have shown that spin-orbit coupling, geometric chirality, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Lizhou Liu , Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

Understanding chiral induced spin-selectivity (CISS), resulting from charge transport through helical systems, has recently inspired many experimental and theoretical efforts, but is still object of intense debate. In order to assess the…

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

In this Letter, we predict a structural phase transition unique to chiral crystals with screw symmetry. In chiral crystals, the phonon frequency renormalized by the electron-phonon coupling depends on the handedness of circular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

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

We present the first microscopic model for chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in electron-transfer, in which the internal degrees of freedom of the chiral bridge are explicitly included. By exactly solving this model on short chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 A. Chiesa , E. Garlatti , M. Mezzadri , L. Celada , R. Sessoli , M. R. Wasielewski , R. Bittl , P. Santini , S. Carretta

The chirality induced spin selectivity effect remains a challenge to capture with theoretical modeling. While at least a decade was spent on independent electron models, which completely fail to reproduce the experimental results, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 J. Fransson

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

The observation of spin-dependent transport through organic chiral structures has sparked numerous fundamental and applicative questions ranging from biology to spintronics. By now, there is a broad consensus that the effect results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Lior Oppenheim , Karen Michaeli

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect gives rise to strongly spin-dependent transport through many organic molecules and structures. Its discovery raises fascinating fundamental questions as well as the prospect of possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Dan Klein , Karen Michaeli

Chiral phonons are the ones with nonzero polarization and can be observed only via a selective coupling with valley electrons and circularly polarized photons. In such process, a new physical quantity, i.e., pseudo-angular momentum (PAM),…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-24 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

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

For over two decades, the role of structural chirality in spin polarization has been widely investigated, with implications for the origins of life, catalysis, and quantum phenomena. Yet, it remains unclear whether all chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Pius M. Theiler , Sander Driessen , Matthew C. Beard

The observation of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) in biological molecules still awaits a full theoretical explanation. In a recent Rapid Communication, Varela et al. [Phys. Rev. B 101, 241410(R) (2020)] presented a model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony , Yasuhiro Utsumi