Engineering chiral-induced spin selectivity in an artificial topological quantum well
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| author | Liu, Lizhou Liu, Peng-Yi Zhang, Tian-Yi Sun, Qing-Feng |
| author_facet | Liu, Lizhou Liu, Peng-Yi Zhang, Tian-Yi Sun, Qing-Feng |
| contents | Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking phenomenon in which spin-unpolarized electrons become spin-polarized after traversing a chiral medium. Theoretical studies have shown that spin-orbit coupling, geometric chirality, and dephasing act cooperatively for this effect to emerge. Inspired by this, we demonstrate a solid-state realization of CISS in an engineered InAs/GaSb quantum well where geometric chirality and dephasing can be introduced controllably. Introducing a chiral structure produces a clear spin polarization whose sign reverses when the chirality is flipped, and whose magnitude grows systematically with the number of dephasing electrodes, while achiral configurations exhibit no spin selectivity. The polarization remains robust even under strong Anderson disorder, showing that the engineered chiral structures provides an intrinsically stable route to spin-selective transport. These results establish a solid-state platform in the topological quantum well system for controllably generating the CISS effect. |
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| spellingShingle | Engineering chiral-induced spin selectivity in an artificial topological quantum well Liu, Lizhou Liu, Peng-Yi Zhang, Tian-Yi Sun, Qing-Feng Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking phenomenon in which spin-unpolarized electrons become spin-polarized after traversing a chiral medium. Theoretical studies have shown that spin-orbit coupling, geometric chirality, and dephasing act cooperatively for this effect to emerge. Inspired by this, we demonstrate a solid-state realization of CISS in an engineered InAs/GaSb quantum well where geometric chirality and dephasing can be introduced controllably. Introducing a chiral structure produces a clear spin polarization whose sign reverses when the chirality is flipped, and whose magnitude grows systematically with the number of dephasing electrodes, while achiral configurations exhibit no spin selectivity. The polarization remains robust even under strong Anderson disorder, showing that the engineered chiral structures provides an intrinsically stable route to spin-selective transport. These results establish a solid-state platform in the topological quantum well system for controllably generating the CISS effect. |
| title | Engineering chiral-induced spin selectivity in an artificial topological quantum well |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21964 |