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The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has been confirmed experimentally for a large class of organic molecules. Adequately modeling the effect remains a challenging task, with both phenomenological models and first-principle…

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This work investigates electron transport through chiral electrostatic potentials by modeling the system in three spatial dimensions and demonstrates that chirality-induced orbital selectivity (CIOS) produces pronounced enantiospecific…

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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 molecular junctions offer a promising platform for realizing chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), where spin filtering occurs without external magnetic fields. Here, we investigate spin transport in such junctions by combining…

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We explore the role of molecular vibrations in the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in the context of charge transport through a molecular nanojunction. We employ a mixed quantum-classical approach that combines Ehrenfest…

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The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect demonstrates a strong coupling between electron spin and molecular chirality, enabling spin-controlled interactions between chiral molecules and magnetic surfaces. While CISS experiments…

Compared to traditional structural chiral materials (e.g., DNA, helicene), topological chirality in trefoil knot molecules has demonstrated multiple remarkable advantages in chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), including ultra-high…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Xi Sun , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Shu-Zheng Zhou , Hua-Hua Fu

In the last decade, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been attracting extensive interest. However, there still exists a large gap between experiments and quantitative theoretical results, and the microscopic mechanism of CISS,…

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Chiral molecular structures enable time-odd pseudotensor that controls correlations between photoelectron spin and molecular orientation in photoionization (arXiv:2505.22433). We show that chiral structures also support time-even…

In connection to the chiral-induced spin-selectivity (CISS) effect, we theoretically analyze the electronic and spin states of edges of a finite $p$-orbital helical atomic chain with the intra-atomic spin-orbit interaction (SOI). This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Takemitsu Kato , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Chirality is breaking of mirror symmetry in matter. In the fields of biology and chemistry, this is particularly important because some of the essential molecules in life such as amino acids and DNA have chirality. It is a long-standing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-04 N. Jiang , Y. Nii , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh , Y. Onose

Here we propose a mechanism by which spin polarization can be generated dynamically in chiral molecular systems undergoing photo-induced electron transfer. The proposed mechanism explains how spin polarization emerges in systems where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-19 Thomas P. Fay , David T. Limmer

The origin and function of chirality in DNA, proteins, and other building blocks of life represent a central question in biology. Observations of spin polarization and magnetization associated with electron transport through chiral…

The notion of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has attracted intensive research interest recently. However, the practical applications of the CISS effects face challenges due to relatively low spin polarization. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Wei Liu , Jingqi Chen , Wenjie Dou

Various device-based experiments have indicated that electron transfer in certain chiral molecules may be spin-dependent, a phenomenon known as the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect. However, due to the complexity of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

Recent research discovered that charge transfer processes in chiral molecules can be spin selective and named the effect chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). Follow-up work studied hybrid spintronic devices with conventional electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Xu Yang , Tom Bosma , Bart J. van Wees , Caspar H. van der Wal

Bio-spinterfaces present numerous opportunities to study spintronics across the biomolecules attached to (ferro)magnetic electrodes. While it offers various exciting phenomena to investigate, it's simultaneously challenging to make stable…

We report chirality-induced current-in-plane magnetoresistance (CIP-MR) in chiral molecule/ferromagnetic metal bilayer at room temperature. The previously reported chiralityinduced current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR)…

Radical pairs in the flavoprotein cryptochrome are central to various magnetically sensitive biological processes, including the proposed mechanism of avian magnetoreception. Cryptochrome's molecular chirality has been hypothesized to…

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