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Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a major experimental probe of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), yet it remains unclear whether the measured spin polarization reflects molecular chirality itself or the broader…

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A general mechanism for anesthetic function is not fully understood. Similarly, the mechanism by which xenon, a chemically inert noble gas, can produce anesthetic effects remains ambiguous. However, a previous study reported a surprisingly…

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Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been shown to enhance magnetic sensitivity in radical pair mechanism (RPM) models under specific Hamiltonian conditions, yet whether these enhancements persist across a broader parameter space…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Tristen Gwynn , Betony Adams , Francesco Petruccione

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

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

Whether chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) reflects coherent SU(2) spin rotation or incoherent spin-dependent filtering is a central unresolved question in molecular spintronics, with implications ranging from asymmetric chemistry to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Vishvendra S. Poonia

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

The chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect is a fascinating phenomena correlating molecular structure with electron spin-polarisation in excited state measurements. Experimental procedures to quantify the spin-filtering magnitude…

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), whereby helical molecules polarize the spin of electrical current, is an intriguing effect with potential applications in nanospintronics. In this nascent field, the study of paramagnetic chiral…

Dispersion interactions are one of the components of van der Waals (vdW) forces, which play a key role in the understanding of intermolecular interactions in many physical, chemical and biological processes. The theory of dispersion forces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Geyer , R. Gutierrez , V. Mujica , J. F. Rivas Silva , A. Dianat , G. Cuniberti

Biomolecules that constitute life on Earth are chiral, but the precise mechanism by which homochirality emerged remains a mystery. In this work it is demonstrated that reactions of radical pairs, where one of the radical electron spins is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Thomas P Fay

Here we emphasize once more the distinction between generating CISS (spin-charge current conversion) in a chiral system and detecting it as magnetoresistance in two-terminal electronic devices. We also highlight important differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xu Yang , Caspar H. van der Wal , Bart J. van Wees

Chirality is not just a structural artifact in biology but it may provide for a genuine biological advantage. This is due to the phenomenon of chiral interaction (CI) which is described here for mechanical-chiral devices. The main…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gideon Gilat

Chirality, handedness, is one of the most fundamental intriguing asymmetries in nature. By definition, chiral objects cannot be superimposed onto each other after mirror reflection operation. Numerous examples of chiral structures can be…

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Topological aspects of the geometry of DNA and similar chiral molecules have received a lot of attention, while the topology of their electronic structure is less explored. Previous experiments have revealed that DNA can efficiently filter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Jahyun Koo , Binghai Yan

Spintronic devices typically employ heterostructures with ferromagnets which break time-reversal symmetry and have non-vanishing magnetization. With the growing class of materials that support spin-polarized carriers, current, and…

Efficient generation of spin polarization is the central focus of spintronics. In magnetic materials, spin currents can arise from heat currents by the conventional spin Seebeck effect. Recently, chiral phonons with definite handedness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Xiao Li , Jinxin Zhong , Jinluo Cheng , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Jun Zhou

In the past decade, chiral materials have drawn significant attention because it is widely claimed that they can act as spin injectors/detectors due to the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. Nevertheless, the microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Sytze H. Tirion , Bart J. van Wees

Despite extensive research on chirality-driven spin selectivity, most studies have focused on static magnetic properties, while the influence of chirality on the dynamic magnetic response remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate how…

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