Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges

Ferdinand Evers; Amnon Aharony; Nir Bar-Gill; Ora Entin-Wohlman; Per Hedegård; Oded Hod; Pavel Jelinek; Grzegorz Kamieniarz; Mikhail Lemeshko; Karen Michaeli; Vladimiro Mujica; Ron Naaman; Yossi Paltiel; Sivan Refaely-Abramson; Oren Tal; Jos Thijssen; Michael Thoss; Jan M van Ruitenbeek; Latha Venkataraman; David H Waldeck; Binghai Yan; Leeor Kronik

doi:10.1002/adma.202106629

Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges

Adv Mater. 2022 Apr;34(13):e2106629. doi: 10.1002/adma.202106629. Epub 2022 Feb 10.

Authors

Ferdinand Evers¹, Amnon Aharony², Nir Bar-Gill³, Ora Entin-Wohlman⁴, Per Hedegård⁵, Oded Hod⁶, Pavel Jelinek⁷, Grzegorz Kamieniarz⁸, Mikhail Lemeshko⁹, Karen Michaeli¹⁰, Vladimiro Mujica¹¹, Ron Naaman¹², Yossi Paltiel³, Sivan Refaely-Abramson¹³, Oren Tal¹², Jos Thijssen¹⁴, Michael Thoss¹⁵, Jan M van Ruitenbeek¹⁶, Latha Venkataraman¹⁷, David H Waldeck¹⁸, Binghai Yan¹⁰, Leeor Kronik¹³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040, Regensburg, Germany.
² School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
³ Department of Applied Physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9190401, Israel.
⁴ Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark.
⁶ Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
⁷ Nanosurf Lab, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 6, CZ 162 00, Czech Republic.
⁸ Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 61-614, Poland.
⁹ IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Am Campus 1, Klosterneuburg, 3400, Austria.
¹⁰ Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 7610001, Israel.
¹¹ School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1604, USA.
¹² Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 76100, Israel.
¹³ Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 76100, Israel.
¹⁴ Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, Delft, 2628 CJ, The Netherlands.
¹⁵ Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁶ Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, 2333 CA, Netherlands.
¹⁷ Department of Applied Physics and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.

PMID: 35064943
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106629

Abstract

A critical overview of the theory of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, that is, phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to various electron processes, is provided. Based on discussions in a recently held workshop, and further work published since, the status of CISS effects-in electron transmission, electron transport, and chemical reactions-is reviewed. For each, a detailed discussion of the state-of-the-art in theoretical understanding is provided and remaining challenges and research opportunities are identified.

Keywords: chirality-induced spin selectivity; electron transmission; spintronics.

Publication types

Review