activity
20222026
most citedOn the Origins of Life's Homochirality: Inducing Enantiomeric Excess with Spin-Polarized Electrons

106 citations · 360 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

10 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…

physics.bio-ph2026

Xenon Anesthesia and Nuclear Spin Effects in Chiral Systems

Allan Wang, S. Furkan Ozturk

A general mechanism for anesthetic function is not fully understood. Similarly, the mechanism by which xenon, a chemically inert noble gas, can produce anesthetic effects remains a…

physics.chem-ph2026

Prebiotic magnetite enables chirality-magnetic surface feedback

Jose A. P. M. Devienne, Ziwei Liu, Clancy Z. Jiang +5

The emergence of biomolecular homochirality requires both an initial symmetry-breaking event and a mechanism to amplify and preserve a chiral imbalance. Magnetic minerals have been…

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…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 26 cited

The central dogma of biological homochirality: How does chiral information propagate in a prebiotic network?

S. Furkan Ozturk, Dimitar D. Sasselov, John D. Sutherland

Biological systems are homochiral, raising the question of how a racemic mixture of prebiotically synthesized biomolecules could attain a homochiral state at the network level. Bas…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 98 cited

Dipolar quantum solids emerging in a Hubbard quantum simulator

Lin Su, Alexander Douglas, Michal Szurek +10

In quantum mechanical many-body systems, long-range and anisotropic interactions promote rich spatial structure and can lead to quantum frustration, giving rise to a wealth of comp…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 25 cited

Chirality-Induced Magnetization of Magnetite by an RNA Precursor

S. Furkan Ozturk, Deb Kumar Bhowmick, Yael Kapon +5

Life is homochiral and homochirality is a fundamental feature of living systems on Earth. While the exact mechanism that led to homochirality is still not fully understood, any rea…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 97 cited

Origin of Biological Homochirality by Crystallization of an RNA Precursor on a Magnetic Surface

S. Furkan Ozturk, Ziwei Liu, John D. Sutherland +1

Homochirality is a signature of life on Earth yet its origins remain an unsolved puzzle. Achieving homochirality is essential for a high-yielding prebiotic network capable of produ…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 106 cited

On the Origins of Life's Homochirality: Inducing Enantiomeric Excess with Spin-Polarized Electrons

S. Furkan Ozturk, Dimitar D. Sasselov

Life as we know it is homochiral, but the origins of biological homochirality on early Earth remain elusive. Shallow closed-basin lakes are a plausible prebiotic environment on ear…