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Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since electrical reading of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Imara Lima Fernandes , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect enables the detection of chirality as electrical charge signals. It is often studied using a two-terminal circuit geometry where a ferromagnet is connected to a chiral component, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Xu Yang , Bart J. van Wees

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a phenomenon in which electron spins are polarized as they are transported through chiral molecules, and the spin polarization depends on the handedness of the chiral molecule. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Nguyen Thanh Phuc

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

Chirality describes the asymmetry between an object and its mirror image and manifests itself in diverse functionalities across all scales of matter - from molecules and aggregates to thin films and bulk chiral materials. A particularly…

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect gives rise to strongly spin-dependent transport through many organic molecules and structures. Its discovery raises fascinating fundamental questions as well as the prospect of possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Dan Klein , Karen Michaeli

We explicitly account for electron-electron interactions when modeling low-dimensional helical organic molecules. We show that competition between various hopping channels, together with interaction-induced double- and superexchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Jacek Herbrych , Maria Daghofer

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

In the present work we theoretically analyze electroluminescence occurring in a biased single-molecule junction with a chiral bridge imitated by a helical chain. We show that optical transitions between electron states of the chiral linker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Natalya A Zimbovskaya

Approaching a two-component tip made of a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) from a magnetic sample allows for two distinct tunneling processes between the ferromagnets, through S: i) Charge and spin are conserved; ii) Charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Feinberg , G. Deutscher

Controlling electronic transport through a single-molecule junction is crucial for molecular electronics or spintronics. In magnetic molecular devices, the spin degree-of-freedom can be used to this end since the magnetic properties of the…

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an {\alpha}-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with spin polarization of the transmitted electrons. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nguyen T. N. Ha , L. Rasabathina , O. Hellwig , A. Sharma , G. Salvan , S. Yochelis , Y. Paltiel , L. T. Baczewski , C. Tegenkamp

Chiral crystals exhibit enantiomer-dependent transport phenomena that generate pure spin or orbital currents, while the handedness sensitivity of spin and orbital Hall conductivities (SHC/OHC) remains insufficiently understood. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Yuting Xiong , Yingjie Hu , Wei Ren , Heng Gao

Recently, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been observed in chiral molecules and is attractive for application in magnetoresistance (MR) devices. In this study, we fabricate CISS-based nanodevices consisting of chiral molecules…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Namgee Cho , James Lim , Martin B. Plenio

Motivated by recent observations of chiral-induced magnetization and spin-selective transport we studied the effect of chiral molecules on conventional BCS superconductors. By applying scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we demonstrate that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-21 H. Alpern , E. Katzir , S. Yochelis , N. Katz , Y. Paltiel , O. Millo

We investigate quantum transport in a two-dimensional electron system coupled to a chiral molecular potential, demonstrating how molecular chirality and orientation affect charge and spin transport properties. We propose a minimal model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ragheed Alhyder , Mikhail Lemeshko , Alberto Cappellaro

Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to detect inelastic spin transitions in magnetic nano-structures comprising only a handful of atoms. Here we demonstrate that STM can uniquely identify the electrostatic spin crossover effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aaron Hurley , Nadjib Baadji , Stefano Sanvito