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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

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

We introduce a distinctive feature of spin-polarized transport, the Spin Coulomb Drag: there is an intrinsic source of friction for spin currents due to the Coulomb interaction between spin ``up'' and spin ``down'' electrons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

Using density functional theory in a time dependent approach we determine the frequencies of the compressional modes of the normal phase of a Fermi gas at unitarity as a function of its polarization. Our energy functional accounts for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Alessio Recati , Sandro Stringari

The theoretical study considers chiral spin texture induced in a 2D electron gas (2DEG) by magnetic skyrmions. We calculate the electron gas spin density as a linear response to the exchange interaction between the 2DEG and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 L. A. Yung , K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

The spin-orbit interaction is frequently the mechanism by which spin and charge are coupled for spintronic applications. The discovery of spin, a century ago, relied on spin-charge coupling by a magnetic field gradient; this mechanism has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicholas J. Harmon , Emma Z. Kurth , Dana Coleman , Lana Flanigan

We generate spin currents in an $^{87}$Rb spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate by application of a magnetic field gradient. The spin current destroys the spin polarization, leading to a sudden onset of two-body collisions. In addition, the spin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-05 Yujiro Eto , Mark Sadgrove , Sho Hasegawa , Hiroki Saito , Takuya Hirano

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 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

Magnetic topology is central to modern quantum magnet, where spin chirality governs exotic spin winding, real-space Berry phase, and topological Hall effect. A key unresolved challenge is how to electrically switch topological spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Kai-Xuan Zhang , Seungbok Lee , Woonghee Cho , Je-Geun Park

Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in determining the properties of solids, and is crucial for spintronics device applications. Conventional spin-orbit coupling arises microscopically from relativistic effects described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The current-induced spin polarization and momentum-dependent spin-orbit field were measured in In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As epilayers with varying indium concentrations and silicon doping densities. Samples with higher indium concentrations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Luengo-Kovac , S. Huang , D. Del Gaudio , J. Occena , R. S. Goldman , R. Raimondi , V. Sih

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)…

We study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality arises solely from a collision-induced transverse impulse.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Raphael Maire , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

We discuss spontaneous spin current generation from the vacuum by strong electric fields as a result of interplay between the Schwinger mechanism and a spin-orbit coupling. By considering a homogeneous slow strong electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Xu-Guang Huang , Mamoru Matsuo , Hidetoshi Taya

Theoretical studies on spin-dependent transport through helical molecules with straight spiral geometry have received intense research interest in the past decade, however, the physics in circular helical molecules has still less been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

We propose and formulate an interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order as a new emergent phase of two-dimensional Fermi gases. We show that when some form of inherent spin-splitting via Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling renders two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-30 Tanmoy Das

The spin dynamics in a broad range of systems can be studied using circularly polarized optical excitation with alternating helicity. The dependence of spin polarization on the frequency of helicity alternation, known as the spin inertia…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 E. A. Zhukov , E. Kirstein , D. S. Smirnov , D. R. Yakovlev , M. M. Glazov , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer , A. Greilich

In the context of chirality induced spin selectivity effect, it has been argued that a chiral molecule when adsorbed on a metal facilitates the formation of a local spin moment at the interface between the metal and molecule, given a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 J. Fransson