{"id":211640,"date":"2025-04-17T02:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chirality-induces-giant-charge-rectification-in-a-superconductor"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:27:29","slug":"chirality-induces-giant-charge-rectification-in-a-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chirality-induces-giant-charge-rectification-in-a-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Chirality induces giant charge rectification in a superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chirality-induces-giant-charge-rectification-in-a-superconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization\u2014a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity. This effect stems from a nontrivial coupling between electron motion and spin within chiral structures, yet quantifying it remains challenging.<\/p>\n<p>To address this, researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) \/SOKENDAI investigated an organic superconductor with chiral symmetry. They focused on nonreciprocity related to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spin-orbit+coupling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spin-orbit coupling<\/a> and observed an exceptionally large nonreciprocal transport in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting state<\/a>, far exceeding theoretical predictions. Remarkably, this was found in an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic material<\/a> with inherently weak spin-orbit coupling, suggesting that chirality significantly enhances charge current-spin coupling with inducing mixed spin-triplet Cooper pairs.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.7.023056\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization\u2014a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity. This effect stems from a nontrivial coupling between electron motion and spin within chiral structures, yet quantifying it remains challenging. To address this, researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) \/SOKENDAI investigated an organic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}