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Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

We show that when an electron or photon propagates in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide, its spin angular momentum (SAM) and its orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact. Remarkably, we find that the dynamics resulting from this spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-09 C. C. Leary , M. G. Raymer , S. J. van Enk

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been extensively studied over the past two decades. While current-induced spin polarization in chiral molecules is widely recognized as the fundamental principle of the CISS, only a few studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Kouta Kondou , Shinji Miwa , Daigo Miyajima

Chiral and axial materials offer platforms for intriguing phenomena, such as cross-correlated responses and chirality-induced spin selectivity. However, quantifying the properties of such materials has generally been considered challenging.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Tatsuya Miki , Hiroaki Ikeda , Michi-To Suzuki , Shintaro Hoshino

Circular dichroism is the differential rate of absorption of right- and left-handed circularly polarized light by chiral particles. Optical vortices which convey orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess a chirality associated with the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Kayn A. Forbes , Garth A. Jones

Understanding the scattering properties of various media is of critical importance in many applications, from secure, high-bandwidth communications to extracting information about biological and mineral particles dissolved in sea water. In…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-05 Duncan McArthur , Alison Yao , Francesco Papoff

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 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

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrated sources of coherent light carrying OAM are based on…

Recent observations of considerable spin polarization in photoemission from metal surfaces through monolayers of chiral molecules were followed by several efforts to rationalize the results as the effect of spin-orbit interaction that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joel Gersten , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Abraham Nitzan

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

The discovery of the chiral induced spin selectivity effect has provided a novel tool to study how active physical and chemical mechanism may differ in chiral enantiomers, however, the origin of the effect itself is yet an open question. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

The potential scattering of electrons carrying non--zero quanta of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) is studied in a framework of the generalized Born approximation, developed in our recent paper by Karlovets \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. A.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 D. V. Karlovets , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo , A. Surzhykov

We present the first microscopic model for chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in electron-transfer, in which the internal degrees of freedom of the chiral bridge are explicitly included. By exactly solving this model on short chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 A. Chiesa , E. Garlatti , M. Mezzadri , L. Celada , R. Sessoli , M. R. Wasielewski , R. Bittl , P. Santini , S. Carretta

For over two decades, the role of structural chirality in spin polarization has been widely investigated, with implications for the origins of life, catalysis, and quantum phenomena. Yet, it remains unclear whether all chirality-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Pius M. Theiler , Sander Driessen , Matthew C. Beard

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

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 a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

The chiral(ity)-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where electrons passing through a chiral medium acquire significant spin-polarization at ambient temperatures, has been widely observed experimentally, yet its theoretical foundations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yan Xi Foo , Aisha Kermiche , Farhan T. Chowdhury , Clarice D. Aiello , Luke D. Smith

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing offers a promising approach to high-capacity optical communication by harnessing the orthogonality of vortex beams. However, its practical deployment is severely limited in real-world settings…