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A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap
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Aiello, Clarice D; Abbas, Muneer; Abendroth, John M; Afanasev, Andrei; Agarwal, Shivang; Banerjee, Amartya S; Beratan, David N; Belling, Jason N; Berche, Bertrand; Botana, Antia; Caram, Justin R; Celardo, Giuseppe Luca; Cuniberti, Gianaurelio; Garcia-Etxarri, Aitzol; Dianat, Arezoo; Diez-Perez, Ismael; Guo, Yuqi; Gutierrez, Rafael; Herrmann, Carmen; Hihath, Joshua; Kale, Suneet; Kurian, Philip; Lai, Ying-Cheng; Lopez, Alexander; Medina, Ernesto; Mujica, Vladimiro; Naaman, Ron; Noormandipour, Mohammadreza; Palma, Julio L; Paltiel, Yossi; Petuskey, William T; Ribeiro-Silva, Joao Carlos; Saenz, Juan Jose; Santos, Elton JG; Solyanik, Maria; Sorger, Volker J; Stemer, Dominik M; Ugalde, Jesus M; Valdes-Curiel, Ana; Varela, Solmar; Waldeck, David H; Weiss, Paul S; Zacharias, Helmut; Wang, Qing Hua
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Chiral degrees of freedom occur in matter and in electromagnetic fields andconstitute an area of research that is experiencing renewed interest driven byrecent observations of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect inchiral molecules and engineered nanomaterials. The CISS effect underpins thefact that charge transport through nanoscopic chiral structures favors aparticular electronic spin orientation, resulting in large room-temperaturespin polarizations. Observations of the CISS effect suggest opportunities forspin control and for the design and fabrication of room-temperature quantumdevices from the bottom up, with atomic-scale precision. Any technology thatrelies on optimal charge transport, including quantum devices for logic,sensing, and storage, may benefit from chiral quantum properties. Theseproperties can be theoretically and experimentally investigated from a quantuminformation perspective, which is presently lacking. There are unchartedimplications for the quantum sciences once chiral couplings can be engineeredto control the storage, transduction, and manipulation of quantum information.This forward-looking perspective provides a survey of the experimental andtheoretical fundamentals of chiral-influenced quantum effects, and presents avision for their future roles in enabling room-temperature quantumtechnologies.