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Here we review a universal model for chirally induced spin-selectivity (CISS) as a standalone effect occurring in chiral molecules. We tie together the results of forward scattering in the gas phase to the results for photoelectrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Miguel Mena , Solmar Varela , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

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).…

Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve several one-dimensional models of tunneling electrons and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 S. Varela , M. Peralta , V. Mujica , B. Berche , E. Medina

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

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

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

We show that a spinor traveling along a one-dimensional helical path develops a spin-orbit coupling as a result of the curvature of the path. We estimate the magnitude of the associated spin polarization and obtain values typical of many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Massimiliano Di Ventra , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Since the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) was first observed experimentally, its microscopic mechanism has been continuously explored by the scientific community. Among these investigations, the non-equilibrium effects and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to the fact that electrons get spin polarized after passing through organic chiral molecules in a nanoscale device. In CISS, chiral molecules are commonly believed to be a spin filter through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yotam Wolf , Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Noejung Park , Binghai Yan

The interaction between electron spin and molecular chirality plays a fundamental role in quantum phenomena, with significant implications for spintronics and quantum computing. The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where…

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 (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

Despite generally lacking ferromagnetic properties or strong spin-orbit coupling, electrons in chiral molecules exhibit unique spin-dependent transport behavior, known as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). This phenomenon implies a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

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

Chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes efficient spin filtering by chiral molecules. This phenomenon has led to nanoscale manipulation of quantum spins with promising applications to spintronics and quantum computing, since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiaopeng Li , Jue Nan , Xiangcheng Pan

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking quantum phenomenon in which electron transport through chiral molecules leads to spin polarization -- even in the absence of external magnetic fields or magnetic components. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Shiv Upadhyay , Xuechen Zheng , Tian Wang , Agam Shayit , Jun Liu , Dali Sun , Xiaosong Li

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

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

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates spin-polarized currents in nonmagnetic materials from structural chirality alone, yet its microscopic origin remains debated. Using a first-principles spatiotemporal density-matrix…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes how chiral molecules and materials generate spin polarization even at thermal equilibrium. This observation has challenged established principles of microscopic reversibility and Onsager…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Pius M. Theiler , Matthew C. Beard
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