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Electron Spin Polarization as a Predictor of Chiroptical Activity in Helical Molecules
Solmar Varela, Rafael Gutierrez, Gianaurelio Cuniberti +2
Chiral structures, breaking spatial inversion symmetry, exhibit non-zero chiroptical activity (COA) due to the interaction between their electric and magnetic responses under exter…
Merging of Dirac points through uniaxial modulation on an optical lattice
A. López, B. Montañes, E. Medina
We analyze the scenario of modulating the potential strength of bound atoms in an optical honeycomb lattice patterned by an electric field to emulate uniaxial strain. This modulati…
Spin polarization induced by decoherence in a tunneling one-dimensional Rashba model
S. Varela, M. Peralta, V. Mujica +2
Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve sever…
Radiation Modulated Spin coupling in DNA
Alexander López, Solmar Varela, Ernesto Medina
The spin activity in macromolecules such as DNA and oligopeptides, in the context of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) has been proposed to be due to the atomic Spin-Orbit…
Response to Comment on: Tunneling in DNA with Spin Orbit coupling
Solmar Varela, Iskra Zambrano, Bertrand Berche +2
The comment by O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, and Y. Utsumi, on our paper S. Varela, I. Zambrano, B. Berche, V. Mujica, and E. Medina, Phys. Rev. B 101, 241410(R) (2020) makes a few…
A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap
Clarice D. Aiello, Muneer Abbas, John M. Abendroth +41
Chiral degrees of freedom occur in matter and in electromagnetic fields and constitute an area of research that is experiencing renewed interest driven by recent observations of th…