Spin-selective transport of electrons in DNA double helix

AM Guo, Q Sun - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
The experiment that the high spin selectivity and the length-dependent spin polarization are
observed in double-stranded DNA [Science 331, 894 (2011) SCIEAS 0036-8075 …

Vibration-enhanced spin-selective transport of electrons in the DNA double helix

GF Du, HH Fu, R Wu - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The spin-selective transport through helical molecules has been a hot topic in condensed
matter physics, because it develops a new research direction in spintronics, ie, chiro …

Effective spin-orbit couplings in an analytical tight-binding model of DNA: Spin filtering and chiral spin transport

S Varela, V Mujica, E Medina - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We derive a detailed analytical tight-binding (TB) model for a double helix emulating DNA
with one type of nucleotide pair and a single oriented π orbital per base. The TB model …

Continuum model for chiral induced spin selectivity in helical molecules

E Medina, LA González-Arraga… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A minimal model is exactly solved for electron spin transport on a helix. Electron transport is
assumed to be supported by well oriented pz type orbitals on base molecules forming a …

[HTML][HTML] Tight-binding modeling of nucleic acid sequences: Interplay between various types of order or disorder and charge transport

K Lambropoulos, C Simserides - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
This review is devoted to tight-binding (TB) modeling of nucleic acid sequences like DNA
and RNA. It addresses how various types of order (periodic, quasiperiodic, fractal) or …

Sequence-dependent spin-selective tunneling along double-stranded DNA

AM Guo, Q Sun - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We report spin-selective tunneling of electrons along double-stranded DNA sandwiched
between nonmagnetic leads. On the basis of a model Hamiltonian which contains spin-orbit …

[HTML][HTML] A quantum physics layer of epigenetics: a hypothesis deduced from charge transfer and chirality-induced spin selectivity of DNA

R Siebert, O Ammerpohl, M Rossini, D Herb, S Rau… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic mechanisms are informational cellular processes instructing normal
and diseased phenotypes. They are associated with DNA but without altering the DNA …

Enhanced spin-polarized transport through DNA double helix by gate voltage

AM Guo, Q Sun - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We report on a way to manipulate the spin transport through double-stranded DNA
contacted by normal-metal electrodes. On the basis of an effective model Hamiltonian, the …

Chiral-induced spin selectivity in photon-coupled achiral matters

N Thanh Phuc - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chiral-induced spin selectivity is a phenomenon in which electron spins are polarized as
they are transported through chiral molecules, and the spin polarization depends on the …

Contact effects in spin transport along double-helical molecules

AM Guo, E Díaz, C Gaul, R Gutierrez… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report on spin transport along double-helical molecular systems by considering various
contact configurations and asymmetries between the two helical strands in the regime of …