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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

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

Chirality is one of the most fundamental properties of many physical, chemical and biological systems. However, the mechanisms underlying the onset and control of chiral symmetry are largely understudied. We investigate possibility of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Bing-Wei Li , Mei-Chun Cai , Hong Zhang , Alexander V. Panfilov , Hans Dierckx

Chirality is ubiquitous from microscopic to macroscopic phenomena in physics and biology, such as fermionic interactions and DNA duplication. In photonics, chirality has traditionally represented differentiated optical responses for right…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-02 Sunkyu Yu , Xianji Piao , Namkyoo Park

We study samples and a dipolar model of magnetic rods arranged on twisted polygonal clusters in terms of the twist angle. We find that the relative twist between polygons induces noncollinear chiral phases, ranging from flux vortex closure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Paula Mellado , Xavier Cazor , Andres Concha

Immersing a mobile impurity in a quantum many-body environment can reveal fundamental properties of the background medium, hence providing a powerful probe of quantum matter. This approach is particularly intriguing when considering media…

Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

We report our theoretical results on the order parameters for the pyrochlore metal Cd$_2$Re$_2$O$_7$, which undergoes enigmatic phase transitions with inversion symmetry breaking. By carefully examining active electronic degrees of freedom…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-17 Satoru Hayami , Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yukitoshi Motome

The chiral structure of liquid crystalline phases arises due to the intrinsic chirality of the constituent mesogens. While it is seemingly straightforward to quantify the macroscopic chirality by using, for instance, the cholesteric pitch…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Kamien

Unlike classical physics, quantum mechnanics is sensitive to mistaken choice of chiralities or time-arrows of local reference systems. Quantum correlations between distant electron spins, for instance, would reveal a mistaken local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diosi

Chirality is a fundamental property of great importance in physics, chemistry, and biology, and has recently been found to generate unexpected spin polarization for electrons passing through organic molecules, known as chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Qun Yang , Yongkang Li , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

We propose a method to perform a configuration determination for chiral and/or polar crystals by utilizing anisotropy of NMR shift. The chirality (handedness) or polarity of a crystal, that is characterized by its sign, can be extracted…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-14 Hiroaki Kusunose , Jun Kikuchi

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and chiral objects in condensed matter are often excited states protected by system's topology. The use of chiral topological excitations to carry information has been demonstrated, where the information is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Tae-Hwan Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Han Woong Yeom

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

Current-induced spin magnetization (CISM) specific to chiral crystals is microscopically analyzed using multipole theory to identify the necessary hopping and spin-orbit couplings (SOCs). Tight-binding models capturing the essence of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Ryosuke Hirakida , Masaki Kato , Masao Ogata

Detection of chiral molecules requires amplification of chirality to measurable levels. Typically, amplification mechanisms are considered at the microscopic scales of individual molecules and their aggregates. Here we demonstrate chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 Chenhui Peng , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

We show that superconducting correlations in the presence of non-zero condensate velocity can mediate the peculiar interaction between localized spins that breaks the global inversion symmetry of magnetic moments. The proposed interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-26 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

This review focuses on the chirality observed in the excited states of the magnetic order, dielectrics, and conductors that hold transverse spins when they are evanescent. Even without any relativistic effect, the transverse spin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Tao Yu , Zhaochu Luo , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We derive the entanglement entropy of chiral fermions on the circle at arbitrary temperature. The spin-sector contribution depends only on the total length of the entangling region, regardless of the configuration of the intervals. Thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Pascal Fries , Ignacio A. Reyes

Up to now, in the literature of optical manipulation, optical force due to chirality usually coexists with the non-chiral force and the chiral force usually takes a very small portion of the total force. In this work, we investigate a case…