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Spin currents proportional to the first- and second-order of the electric field are calculated in a specific tight-binding model with time-reversal symmetry. Specifically, a tight-binding model with time-reversal symmetry is constructed…

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Chiral structures, breaking spatial inversion symmetry, exhibit non-zero chiroptical activity (COA) due to the interaction between their electric and magnetic responses under external electromagnetic fields, an effect that is otherwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Solmar Varela , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Ernesto Medina , Vladimiro Mujica

Efficient generation of spin polarization is the central focus of spintronics. In magnetic materials, spin currents can arise from heat currents by the conventional spin Seebeck effect. Recently, chiral phonons with definite handedness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Xiao Li , Jinxin Zhong , Jinluo Cheng , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Jun Zhou

We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis, for the currents of charge and chirality, when there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Photoexcitable donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A) molecules that support intramolecular charge transfer are ideal platforms to probe the influence of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) in electron transfer and resulting radical pairs. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Laura A. Völker , Konstantin Herb , Erika Janitz , Christian L. Degen , John M. Abendroth

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

Here we emphasize once more the distinction between generating CISS (spin-charge current conversion) in a chiral system and detecting it as magnetoresistance in two-terminal electronic devices. We also highlight important differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

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

In the past decade, chiral materials have drawn significant attention because it is widely claimed that they can act as spin injectors/detectors due to the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. Nevertheless, the microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Sytze H. Tirion , Bart J. van Wees

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

We report the formation of chiral quantum droplet in a spin-orbit coupled Bose gas, where the system turns to a self-bound droplet when moving towards a particular direction and remains gaseous otherwise. The chirality arises from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-16 Tianqi Luo , Xiaoling Cui

We examine recent magnetic torque measurements in two compounds, $\gamma$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$ and RuCl$_3$, which have been discussed as possible realizations of the Kitaev model. The analysis of the reported discontinuity in torque, as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 K. A. Modic , B. J. Ramshaw , A. Shekhter , C. M. Varma

Averaged observations of physical phenomena have been utilized for comprehending specific occurrences in nature; however, these may overlook the crucial characteristics of individual events, thereby leading to diverse conclusions. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Minhwan Kim , Duck-Ho Kim

We present a microscopic theory of chirality-induced orbital selectivity (CIOS) in helical crystals, in which truly chiral phonons selectively transfer angular momentum to electronic orbital degrees of freedom. For a threefold helical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Tomomi Tateishi , Akihito Kato , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

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

Chiral bound states in the continuum (BICs) are confined photonic modes with infinite quality factors and chiral response, offering significant potential for chiral optics. Although a novel type of spin-orbital-locking chiral BIC was…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Maohua Gong , Qiutong Zhen , Yujie Tang , Peng Hu , Qing-An Tu , Yan Meng , Peiheng Zhou , Zhen Gao

Current-induced spin polarization (CISP) is rederived in ballistic spin-orbit-coupled electron systems, based on equilibrium statistical mechanics. A simple and useful picture is correspondingly proposed to help understand the CISP and…

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