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Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to an ability to induce a spin polarization of an electron transmitted through chiral materials. An important experimental observation is that incredibly large spin polarization is realized…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Akihito Kato , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto , Jun-ichiro Kishine

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates spin-polarized currents in nonmagnetic materials from structural chirality alone, yet its microscopic origin remains debated. Using a first-principles spatiotemporal density-matrix…

Since the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) was first observed experimentally, its microscopic mechanism has been continuously explored by the scientific community. Among these investigations, the non-equilibrium effects and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

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

Chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes efficient spin filtering by chiral molecules. This phenomenon has led to nanoscale manipulation of quantum spins with promising applications to spintronics and quantum computing, since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiaopeng Li , Jue Nan , Xiangcheng Pan

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

The Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect describes the ability of chiral molecules and crystals to transmit spin-polarized currents, a phenomenon first identified in 1999. Although this effect holds great promise for a broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Sushant Kumar Behera , Ruggero Sala , Abhirup Roy Karmakar , Matteo Moioli , Rocco Martinazzo , Matteo Cococcioni

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

Molecular chirality and electron spin are intricately intertwined via the fascinating phenomenon of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), which has garnered considerable attention due to its extensive potential applications. A recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Ai-Min Guo , Yossi Paltiel , Qing-Feng Sun

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates giant spin polarization in transport through chiral molecules, paving the way for novel spintronic devices and enantiomer separation. Unlike conventional transport, CISS magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yufei Zhao , Kai Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Kai Sun , Binghai Yan

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 (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…

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) enables spin selectivity of charge carriers in chiral molecular systems without magnetic materials. While spin selectivity has been widely investigated, its quantum coherence has not yet been explored.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Hanna T. Fridman , Rotem Malkinson , Amir Hen , Shira Yochelis , Yossi Paltiel , Nir Bar-gill

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

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

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

Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve several one-dimensional models of tunneling electrons and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 S. Varela , M. Peralta , V. Mujica , B. Berche , E. Medina

The helical distribution of the electronic density in chiral molecules, such as DNA and bacteriorhodopsin, has been suggested to induce a spin-orbit coupling interaction that may lead to the so-called chirality-induced spin selectivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sanchez , Rafael Gutierrez , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Elena Diaz

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