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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

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

We provide a critical overview of the theory of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, i.e., phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to various electron processes. Based on…

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…

We report a new type of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) called geometric SOC. Starting from the relativistic theory in curved space, we derive an effective nonrelativistic Hamiltonian in a generic curve embedded into flat three dimensions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Atsuo Shitade , Emi Minamitani

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

Time-reversal symmetric charge and spin transport through a molecule comprising two-orbital channels and connected to two leads is analyzed. It is demonstrated that spin-resolved currents are generated when spin-flip processes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Interatomic hopping mediated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) entangles spin, orbital and sublattice degrees of freedom of electrons, leading to the emergence of intriguing phenomena such as novel topological insulators and exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Masaki Kato , Masao Ogata

We derive the interatomic spin-orbit interaction (SOI) from a helical atomic chain composed of $p$-orbitals with intra-atomic SOI, which exhibits a helical state--a potential origin of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Takemitsu Kato , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

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

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is an effect that has recently attracted a great deal of attention in chiral chemistry and that remains to be understood. In the CISS effect, electrons passing through chiral molecules acquire a…

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

The observation of spin-dependent transmission of electrons through chiral molecules has led to the discovery of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). The remarkably high efficiency of the spin polarizing effect has recently gained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Ashish Moharana , Yael Kapon , Fabian Kammerbauer , David Anthofer , Shira Yochelis , Mathias Kläui , Yossi Paltiel , Angela Wittmann

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has garnered significant interest in the field of molecular spintronics due to its potential for creating spin-polarized electrons without the need for a magnet. Recent studies devoted to…

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

The spin activity in macromolecules such as DNA and oligopeptides, in the context of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) has been proposed to be due to the atomic Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) and the associated chiral symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Alexander López , Solmar Varela , Ernesto Medina

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect describes an observed correlation between the orientation of an electron spin transported or transferred through a molecule and that molecule's chirality. Suitable molecules are usually…

Chiral molecules are known to preferentially select electrons with a particular spin state, an effect termed chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). In this work, the transient CISS dynamics in a chiral molecule are investigated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Riley Stuermer , Collin VanEssen , Jacob Byers , Keith Ferrer , Prasad Gudem , Diego Kienle , Jonas Fransson , Mani Vaidyanathan

The interplay between chirality and magnetism has been a source of fascination among scientists for over a century. In recent years, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has attracted renewed interest. It has been observed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Mohammad Reza Safari , Frank Matthes , Claus M. Schneider , Karl-Heinz Ernst , Daniel E. Bürgler

Recent progress in constructing supramolecular assemblies with hierarchical chirality offers new opportunities to investigate the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect and its potential applications. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Song Chen , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Xi Sun , Shu-Zheng Zhou , Hua-Hua Fu