RT Journal Article
T1 Spin-polarized electron transmission in dna-like systems
A1 Sierra, Miguel A.
A1 Sánchez, David
A1 Gutiérrez, Rafael
A1 Cuniberti, Gianaurelio
A1 Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco
A1 Díaz García, Elena
AB 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 (CISS) effect. Key ingredients for the theoretical modelling are, in this context, the helically shaped potential of the molecule and, concomitantly, a Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling due to the appearance of a magnetic field in the electron reference frame. Symmetries of these models clearly play a crucial role in explaining the observed effect, but a thorough analysis has been largely ignored in the literature. In this work, we present a study of these symmetries and how they can be exploited to enhance chiral-induced spin selectivity in helical molecular systems.
PB MDPI
SN 2218-273X
YR 2020
FD 2020-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6094
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6094
LA eng
NO ©2020 MDPIThis research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Grant Nos. MAT2016-75955 and MAT2017-82639. R.G. and G.C. acknowledge financial support from the Volkswagen Stiftung (Grant No. 88366). This work was partly supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Cluster of Excellence "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden". M.A.S. acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Project-id No. 258499086-SFB1170 "ToCoTronics", the Free State of Bavaria (Elitenetzwerk Bayern IDK "Topologische Isolatoren") and the Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter-ct.qmat(EXC 2147, Grant No. 39085490).
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO German Research Foundation (DFG)
NO Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter-ct.qmat
DS Docta Complutense
RD 5 abr 2025