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Scattering of electrons by localized spins is the ultimate process enabling electrical detection and control of the magnetic state of a spin-doped material. At the molecular scale, this scattering is mediated by the electronic orbitals…

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In this paper, we investigate the effect of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) on the radical pair model of avian magnetoreception. We examine the impact of spin selectivity on the avian compass sensitivity. In this analysis, we also…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Yash Tiwari , Vishvendra Singh Poonia

In a magnetic texture, the spin of a conduction electron is forced to be aligned to the localized moment. As a result, the topology of the magnetic texture affects the electron dynamics in nontrivial ways. A representative example is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yoichi Nii , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

In this paper we review the recent field of organic spintronics, where organic materials are applied as a medium to transport and control spin-polarized signals. The contacts for injecting and detecting spins are formed by metals, oxides,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 W. J. M. Naber , S. Faez , W. G. van der Wiel

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

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

We report a non-contact mechanism for directional injection of magnons in magnetic films when driven by a spin accumulation $\pmb{\mu}_s$ of electrons of a nearby metallic layer, governed by the long-range dipolar coupling between magnons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xi-Han Zhou , Xiyin Ye , Tao Yu

Noninteracting electrons confined to a corrugated surface are investigated in magnetic field, and the associated effective Pauli equation is given analytically by the thin-layer quantization scheme. Interestingly, the Zeeman splitting gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hao Zhao , Yong-Long Wang , Run Cheng , Guo-Hua Liang , Hua Jiang , Hui Liu , Hong-Shi Zong

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

It is known that in certain non-bipartite quasi-one dimensional spin systems in a magnetic field, in addition to the usual Pauli coupling of the spins to the field, new parity breaking three spin interactions, i.e. chiral spin interactions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Chitra , R. Citro

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Xie , Dinghui Wang , Chao Li , Xiaofan Shen , Junting Zhang

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

An impressive success of spintronic applications has been typically realized in metal-based structures which utilize magnetoresistive effects for substantial improvements in the performance of computer hard drives and magnetic random access…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin

There is a renewed interest to study spin-polarized transport and spin dynamics in various electronic materials. The motivation to examine the spin degrees of freedom (mostly in electrons, but also in holes and nuclei) comes from various…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Zutic

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

Spin accumulation induced by an electric field in chiral electron system is investigated based on a linear response theory. It is shown that the spin response function has a spatially uniform component due to the chiral angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Gen Tatara

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and fundamental in science, from particle physics to metamaterials.The most established technique of chiral discrimination - photoabsorption circular dichroism - relies on the magnetic properties of a…