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Electron chirality has been proposed as a microscopic quantity that characterizes electronic handedness, yet its underlying control parameter has not been clearly identified. Furthermore, its applicability is limited to systems with…

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

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a phenomenon in which electron spins are polarized as they are transported through chiral molecules, and the spin polarization depends on the handedness of the chiral molecule. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nguyen Thanh Phuc

Chirality is not just a structural artifact in biology but it may provide for a genuine biological advantage. This is due to the phenomenon of chiral interaction (CI) which is described here for mechanical-chiral devices. The main…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gideon Gilat

Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror-image structures, a peculiar fact given that the electronic energy spectra of the systems are identical. We propose that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Spiros S. Skourtis , David N. Beratan , Ron Naaman , Abraham Nitzan , David H. Waldeck

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

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

It has been long recognized that the spatial polarization of the electronic clouds in molecules, and the spatial arrangements of atoms into chiral molecular structures, play crucial roles in physics, chemistry and biology. However, these…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-14 David Ayuso , Andres Ordonez , Piero Decleva , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Maximum structural chirality refers to the highest selectivity for circularly polarized light (CPL) in nanostructures, often manifested as maximum circular dichroism (CD), optical rotation (OR), and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). However, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 WenKui Zhao , ShengYi Wang , HanZhuo Kuang , Hao Luo , Qiu Wang , Bo-Wen Jia

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, a phenomenon where the chirality of molecules imparts significant spin selectivity to electron transfer processes, has garnered increasing interest among the chemistry, biology, and physics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Tian-Yi Zhang , Yue Mao , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to an ability to induce a spin polarization of an electron transmitted through chiral materials. An important experimental observation is that incredibly large spin polarization is realized…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Akihito Kato , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto , Jun-ichiro Kishine

The observation of chirality is ubiquitous in nature. Contrary to intuition, the population of opposite chiralities is surprisingly asymmetric at fundamental levels. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic weak force to 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

Chirality, an intrinsic handedness, is one of the most intriguing fundamental phenomena in nature. Materials composed of chiral molecules find broad applications in areas ranging from nonlinear optics and spintronics to biology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Yu. Tikhonov , S. Kondovych , J. Mangeri , M. Pavlenko , L. Baudry , A. Sené , A. Galda , S. Nakhmanson , O. Heinonen , A. Razumnaya , I. Luk'yanchuk , V. M. Vinokur

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

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…

Chirality is considered by many scientists to be mainly a geometric concept. There exists also a physical aspect of chirality which is largely being overlooked at. Two examples of mechanical devices are introduced here that represent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

Chirality manifests across multiple scales, yielding unique phenomena that break mirror symmetry. In chiral materials, unexpectedly large spin-filtering or photogalvanic effects have been observed even in materials composed of light…

Chiral crystals and molecules were recently predicted to form an intriguing platform for unconventional orbital physics. Here, we report the observation of chirality-driven orbital textures in the bulk electronic structure of CoSi, a…

Topology, a well-established concept in mathematics, has nowadays become essential to describe condensed matter. At its core are chiral electron states on the bulk, surfaces and edges of the condensed matter systems, in which spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth