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Spin filtering is an essential operation in spintronics that allows creation and detection of spin polarized carriers. Transition metal ferromagnets are used as spin filters in most cases, though their spin filtering efficiency is only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 K. M. Alam , Sandipan Pramanik

Central to spintronics is the interconversion between electronic charge and spin currents, and this can arise from the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. CISS is often studied as magnetoresistance (MR) in two-terminal (2T)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

We observe and model spin currents arising from chirality and effective spin-exchange interactions in a weakly interacting $^6$Li Fermi gas. Chirality is introduced by a static displacement between the center of the trapped atoms and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Camen A. Royse , J. E. Thomas

We report that spin polarization occurs over millimeters in polycrystalline bulk samples of chiral disilicide NbSi$_2$ and TaSi$_2$. As previously demonstrated in the experiments using single crystals of NbSi$_2$ and TaSi$_2$, electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-08 Hiroaki Shishido , Rei Sakai , Yuta Hosaka , Yoshihiko Togawa

We theoretically analyze spin filtering in two-terminal systems, induced by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), as a possible origin of the ``chirality-induced spin selectivity'' (CISS) effect observed experimentally in chiral molecules, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Takemitsu Kato , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We investigate quantum transport in a two-dimensional electron system coupled to a chiral molecular potential, demonstrating how molecular chirality and orientation affect charge and spin transport properties. We propose a minimal model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ragheed Alhyder , Mikhail Lemeshko , Alberto Cappellaro

The surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators exhibit a helical spin texture with spin locked to momentum. To date, however, the direct all-electrical detection of the helical spin texture has remained elusive owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Shi-Han Zheng , Hou-Jian Duan , Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang

Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Fransson

Electronic transport through a single-molecule magnet Mn$_{12}$ in a two-terminal set up is calculated using the non-equilibrium Green's function method in conjunction with density-functional theory. A single-molecule magnet Mn$_{12}$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-28 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Kyungwha Park , Víctor García-Suárez , Jaime Ferrer

The conductance profiles of magnetic transition metal atoms, such as Fe, Co and Mn, deposited on surfaces and probed by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), provide detailed information on the magnetic excitations of such nano-magnets. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aaron Hurley , Nadjib Baadji , Stefano Sanvito

The spin-dependent electron transmission through a helical membrane with account of linear spin-orbit interaction has been investigated by numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation in cylindrical coordinates . It is shown that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Guo-Hua Liang , Yong-Long Wang , Hua Jiang , Meng-Yun Lai , Hong-Shi Zong

We investigate electron transport through a mixed-valence molecular complex in which an excess electron can tunnel between hetero-valent transition metal ions, each having a fixed localized spin. We show that in this class of molecules the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 F. Reckermann , M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs

The discovery of spin supersolid and its giant magnetocaloric effect has opened a new arena in frustrated quantum magnets and cutting-edge cryogenics. The intermetallic EuCo2Al9 (ECA), for the first time, extends this intriguing phase from…

Recently, the chiral-induced spin selectivity in molecular systems has attracted extensive interest among the scientific communities. Here, we investigate the effect of the gate voltage on spin-selective electron transport through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ting-Rui Pan , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

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

The features of the spin and charge transport of electrons and holes in a metal and a semiconductor were studied using the Boltzmann transport equations. It was shown that the electrons and holes carry the spin in opposite directions in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Vadym Zayets

Radical pairs in the flavoprotein cryptochrome are central to various magnetically sensitive biological processes, including the proposed mechanism of avian magnetoreception. Cryptochrome's molecular chirality has been hypothesized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Luke D. Smith , Sukesh Tallapudi , Matt C. J. Denton , Daniel R. Kattnig

We have directly observed spin-dependent transport of single cesium atoms in a 1D optical lattice. A superposition of two circularly polarized standing waves is generated from two counter propagating, linearly polarized laser beams.…

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

The discovery of the chiral induced spin selectivity effect has provided a novel tool to study how active physical and chemical mechanism may differ in chiral enantiomers, however, the origin of the effect itself is yet an open question. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson