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most citedMagnetic-Related States and Order Parameter Induced in a Conventional Superconductor by Nonmagnetic Chiral Molecules

59 citations · 345 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Dynamic Breaking of Mirror Symmetry in Spin-Dependent Electron Transport through Chiral Media Causes Enantiomeric Excesses

Yossi Paltiel, Daniel Goldberg, Nir Yuran +9

Two fundamental questions have puzzled scientists for more than 150 years. How did life become homochiral and why was this specific handedness selected. Recently, it has been shown…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Magnetic Microscopy of Skyrmions in Magnetic Thin Films with Chiral Overlayers

Buddhika Hondamuni, Théo Balland, Fabian Kammerbauer +15

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic propert…

quant-ph2026

Signatures of Spin Coherence in Chiral Coupled Quantum Dots

Hanna T. Fridman, Rotem Malkinson, Amir Hen +3

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) enables spin selectivity of charge carriers in chiral molecular systems without magnetic materials. While spin selectivity has been widely in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Imaging of Ferromagnetic van der Waals Magnetic Domain Structures at Ambient Conditions

Bindu, Amandeep Singh, Amir Hen +10

Recently discovered 2D van der Waals magnetic materials, and specifically Iron-Germanium-Telluride (), have attracted significant attention both from a fundamen…

physics.chem-ph2025

Spin-Dependent Amyloid Self-Assembly on Magnetic Substrates

Yael Kapon, Dror Merhav, Gal Finkelstein-Zuta +9

Protein aggregation into insoluble amyloid-like fibrils is implicated in a wide range of diseases and understanding its nucleation process is a key for mechanistic insights and adv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Chiral Phonons Enhance Ferromagnetism

Jonas Fransson, Yael Kapon, Lilach Brann +4

Recent experiments suggest that the conditions for ferromagnetic order in, e.g., magnetite, can be modified by adsorption of chiral molecules. Especially, the coercivity of magneti…

physics.chem-ph2024

Temperature-Enhanced Coercive Field by Chiral Molecules

Yael Kapon, Lilach Brann, Shira Yochelis +4

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect demonstrates a strong coupling between electron spin and molecular chirality, enabling spin-controlled interactions between chiral…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Chiral-induced unidirectional spin-to-charge conversion

Ashish Moharana, Yael Kapon, Fabian Kammerbauer +5

The observation of spin-dependent transmission of electrons through chiral molecules has led to the discovery of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). The remarkably high efficie…

physics.chem-ph2023

Magneto-Optical Imaging of Magnetic-Domain Pinning Induced by Chiral Molecules

Yael Kapon, Fabian Kammerbauer, Shira Yochelis +2

Chiral molecules have the potential for creating new magnetic devices by locally manipulating the magnetic properties of metallic surfaces. When chiral polypeptides chemisorb onto…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Cooperative effect of electrons spin polarization in a hybrid nanostructure of a magnetic thin film with adsorbed chiral molecules studied with non-spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

Nguyen T. N. Ha, L. Rasabathina, O. Hellwig +6

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an α-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with s…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 20 cited

Unconventional Meissner screening induced by chiral molecules in a conventional superconductor

Hen Alpern, Morten Amundsen, Roman Hartmann +12

The coupling of a superconductor to a different material often results in a system with unconventional superconducting properties. A conventional superconductor is a perfect diamag…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

High-Sensitivity, High-Resolution Detection of Reactive Oxygen-Species Concentration Using NV Centers

Yoav Ninio, Nir Waiskopf, Idan Meirzada +5

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond have been demonstrated as useful magnetic sensors, in particular for measuring spin fluctuations, achieving high sensitivity and spat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 57 cited

Role of Exchange Interactions in the Magnetic Response and Intermolecular Recognition of Chiral Molecules

Arezoo Dianat, Rafael Gutierrez, Hen Alpern +6

The physical origin of the so-called chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect has puzzled experimental and theoretical researchers over the past few years. Early experiment…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 50 cited

Long-Timescale Magnetization Ordering Induced by an Adsorbed Chiral Monolayer on Ferromagnets

Idan Meirzada, Nir Sukenik, Galya Haim +3

When an electron passes through a chiral molecule there is a high probability for a correlation between the momentum and spin of the charge, thus leading to spin polarized current.…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 59 cited

Magnetic-Related States and Order Parameter Induced in a Conventional Superconductor by Nonmagnetic Chiral Molecules

Hen Alpern, Konstantin Yavilberg, Tom Dvir +8

Hybrid ferromagnetic/superconducting systems are well known for hosting intriguing phenomena such as emergent triplet superconductivity at their interfaces and the appearance of in…

cond-mat.supr-con2019

Unconventional order parameter induced by helical chiral molecules adsorbed on a metal proximity-coupled to a superconductor

Tamar Shapira, Hen Alpern, Shira Yochelis +5

Following our previous results, which provide evidence for the emergence of a chiral p-wave triplet-pairing component in superconducting Nb upon the adsorption of chiral molecules,…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 30 cited

Regulating the Energy Flow in a Cyanobacterial Light Harvesting Antenna Complex

do Eisenberg, Felipe Caycedo-Soler, Dvir Harris +6

Photosynthetic organisms harvest light energy, utilizing the absorption and energy transfer properties of protein-bound chromophores. Controlling the harvesting efficiency is criti…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 44 cited

Unconventional superconductivity induced in Nb films by adsorbed chiral molecules

H. Alpern, E. Katzir, S. Yochelis +3

Motivated by recent observations of chiral-induced magnetization and spin-selective transport we studied the effect of chiral molecules on conventional BCS superconductors. By appl…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 23 cited

Increased superconducting transition temperature of a niobium thin-film proximity-coupled to gold nanoparticles using linking organic molecules

Eran Katzir, Shira Yochelis, Felix Zeides +8

The superconducting critical temperature, TC, of thin Nb films is significantly modified when gold nanoparticles (NPs) are chemically linked to the Nb film, with a consistent enhan…

physics.optics2011★ 53 cited

Highly directional emission and photon beaming from nanocrystal quantum dots embedded in metallic nanoslit arrays

Nitzan Livneh, Ayelet Strauss, Ilai Schwarz +7

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors.