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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

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 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

Different types of order are discussed in the context of strongly correlated transition metal oxides, involving pure compounds and $3d^{3}-4d^{4}$ and $3d^{2}-4d^{4}$ hybrids. Apart from standard, long-range spin and orbital orders we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-24 Wojciech Brzezicki

In the context of correlated insulators, where electron-electron interactions (U) drive the localization of charge carriers, the metal-insulator transition (MIT) is described as either bandwidth (BC) or filling (FC) controlled. Motivated by…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in noncentrosymmetric materials is the source of incommensurate magnetic structures. In semiconductors, it drives the Rashba spin splitting and spin momentum locking, while in magnetic insulators based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-08 Ryo Makuta , Chisa Hotta

We explicitly account for electron-electron interactions when modeling low-dimensional helical organic molecules. We show that competition between various hopping channels, together with interaction-induced double- and superexchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Jacek Herbrych , Maria Daghofer

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an essential ingredient in topological materials, conventional and quantum-gas based alike.~Engineered spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atom systems --unique in their experimental control and measurement…

We show that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in InSe enables the optical transition across the principal band gap to couple with in-plane polarized light. This transition, enabled by $p_{x,y}\leftrightarrow p_z$ hybridization due to intra-atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 S. J. Magorrian , V. Zólyomi , V. I. Fal'ko

Motivated by recent experimental development, we investigate spin-orbit coupled repulsive Fermi atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Using the density-matrix renormalization group method, we calculate momentum distribution function,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-09 Xiaofan Zhou , Kuang Zhang , Junjun Liang , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

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

We present a generalized extension of the recently developed electron/hole-transfer Dynamically-weighted State-Averaged Constrained CASSCF (eDSC/hDSC) method to model charge transfer in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for systems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Alok Kumar , Zhen Tao , Joseph E. Subotnik , Tian Qiu

A general multi-orbital Hubbard model, which includes on-site inter-orbital electron hoppings, is introduced and studied. It is shown that the on-site inter-orbital single electron hopping is one of the most basic interactions. Two electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-10 Qingguo Feng , Peter M. Oppeneer

A minimal model is exactly solved for electron spin transport on a helix. Electron transport is assumed to be supported by well oriented $p_z$ type orbitals on base molecules forming a staircase of definite chirality. In a tight binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Ernesto Medina , Luis A. González-Arraga , Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro , Bertrand Berche , Vladimiro Mujica

The chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) in layers of helical molecules gained considerable attention in the emerging field of spintronics, because the effect enables spin-filter devices under ambient conditions. Several theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Daniel Nürenberg , Helmut Zacharias

Spin-orbit, charge-transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) allows for the efficient production of triplet excited states in donor-acceptor (DA) dyads without the involvement of heavy atoms, for use in a myriad of technologies. This process…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) leads to splitting of otherwise spin-degenerate bands in noncentrosymmetric materials, even if time-reversal symmetry is present. While this gives rise to well-known phenomena such as the Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-16 Fan Yang , Rafael M. Fernandes , Turan Birol

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…

Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing chiral media is first studied via electronic wavepacket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yun Chen , Oded Hod , Joel Gersten , Abraham Nitzan

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…