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most citedMechanically modulated spin orbit couplings in oligopeptides

27 citations · 51 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall20211 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall202027 cited

Mechanically modulated spin orbit couplings in oligopeptides

Juan Daniel Torres, Raul Hidalgo, Solmar Varela +1

Recently experiments have shown very significant spin activity in biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, oligopeptides and aminoacids. Such molecules have in common their chir…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Spin-orbit interaction and spin selectivity for tunneling electron transfer in DNA

Solmar Varela, Iskra Zambrano, Bertrand Berche +2

Electron transfer (ET) in biological molecules such as peptides and proteins consists of electrons moving between well defined localized states (donors to acceptors) through a tunn…

cond-mat.mes-hall201922 cited

Intrinsic Rashba coupling due to Hydrogen bonding in DNA

S. Varela, B. Montañes, F. López +4

We present an analytical model for the role of hydrogen bonding on the spin-orbit coupling of model DNA molecule. Here we analyze in detail the electric fields due to the polarizat…

cond-mat.mes-hall20171 cited

DNA mechanical deformations and chiral spin selectivity

Solmar Varela, Vladimiro Mujica, Ernesto Medina

The strength of the spin-orbit interaction relevant to transport in a low dimensional structure depends critically on the relative geometrical arrangement of current carrying orbit…