Ferdinand Evers,1, Amnon Aharony,2 Nir
Bar-Gill,3 Ora Entin-Wohlman,4 Per
Hedegård,5 Oded Hod,6 Pavel
Jelinek,7 Grzegorz Kamieniarz,8 Mikhail
Lemeshko,9 Karen Michaeli,10 Vladimiro
Mujica,11 Ron Naaman,12 Yossi
Paltiel,3 Sivan Refaely-Abramson,13 Oren
Tal,12 Jos Thijssen,14 Michael
Thoss,15 Jan M. van Ruitenbeek,16 Latha
Venkataraman,17 David H. Waldeck,18 Binghai
Yan,10 and Leeor Kronik13
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, DK-2100 Copenhagen, 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, 3400 Klosterneuburg, 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) 3 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, 2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands
17) Department of Applied Physics and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
18) Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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.
