Interfacial Charge, Spin, and Chemical Dynamics in Energy and Quantum Materials II

Presentations

• Chirality-induced orbital angular momentum selectivity: From helical transport to scattering resolution

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Publication: Yun Chen, Oded Hod, Joel Gersten, and Abraham Nitzan, "Chirality-Induced Orbital-Angular-Momentum Selectivity in Electron Transmission and Scattering", under preparation (2025).

  Presenters

  • Oded Hod

    • Tel Aviv University

  Authors

  • Oded Hod

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Yun Chen

  • Joel Gersten

    • The City College of New York

  • Abraham Nitzan

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Chiral-induced spin selectivity in polypeptides on Ta/CoFeB/MgO/Ta/Pt thin films exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Christian Pfeiffer

    • TU Munich

  Authors

  • Christian Pfeiffer

    • TU Munich

  • Johanna Pfleger

  • Manuel Kompatscher

  • Abin Nalakath

  • Valentin Ahrens

  • Harsh Gupta

    • TU Munich

  • Markus Becherer

  • Peer Kirsch

  • Marc Tornow

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• Chirality, Spin, and Charge Interactions at Magnet-chiral Molecule Interface in Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: [1] Y. Zhao, K. Zhang, K., J. Xiao, K. Sun, B. Yan, Nat Commun 16, 37 (2025).
  [2] Wu et al. arXiv:2408.03501 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Binghai Yan

    • Penn State University

  Authors

  • Binghai Yan

    • Penn State University

  • Yufei Zhao

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Kai Zhang

    • University of Michigan

  • Jiewen Xiao

  • Kai Sun

    • University of Michigan

  • Zuoti Xie

  • Wenxin Niu

  • Cunlan Guo

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• Pseudo-Hermitian Framework and Ultrafast Evidence for Chirality-Induced Spin–Charge Conversion at Solid Interfaces

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: 1)Pius M.Theiler & Matthew C. Beard. Equilibrium Spin Polarization Arising From Chirality. arXiv:2510.24624, 2025.
  2) Pius M.Theiler, Sander Driessen, Matthew C. Beard. Non-Hermitian Exchange as the Origin of Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity. arXiv:2505.06173, 2025.
  3)Yifan Dong, Aeron McConnell, Matthew P. Hautzinger, Md Azimul Haque, Andrew H. Comstock, Pius M. Theiler, Joseph M. Luther, Peter C. Sercel, Dali Sun, Matthew C. Beard. Ultrafast inverse chirality induced spin selectivity observed by THz emission. in press, 2025.

  Presenters

  • Pius Theiler

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  Authors

  • Pius Theiler

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Non-Hermitian Skin Effect in Chiral Materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Wangqian Miao

    • The Pennsylvania State University

  Authors

  • Wangqian Miao

    • The Pennsylvania State University

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• Out-of-Plane Rashba Spin-Splitting and Structure-Property Relationships in Layered Cu₂AM^VSe₄ Chalcogenides (A = K, Rb, Cs; M^V = V, Nb, Ta)

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Timothy M. McWhorter, Wentao Zhang, Yang Shen, Volker Blum and David B. Mitzi, "Out-of-Plane Rashba Spin-Splitting and Structure-Property Relationships in Layered Cu2AMVSe4 Chalcogenides (A = K, Rb, Cs; MV = V, Nb, Ta)", Chemistry of Materials Vol. 37, issue 17, 6603-6618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01116

  Presenters

  • Volker Blum

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Timothy McWhorter

  • Wentao Zhang

  • Yang Shen

  • Volker Blum

    • Duke University

  • David Mitzi

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• Spin Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems: A DLvN-TDDFT Approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Kashinath T. Chavan, Oded Hod, and Juan E. Peralta, "Theoretical framework, implementation, and applications of spin dynamics in open magnetic quantum systems" under preparation (2025).

  Presenters

  • Kashinath Chavan

    • Central Michigan University

  Authors

  • Kashinath Chavan

    • Central Michigan University

  • Oded Hod

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Juan Peralta

    • Central Michigan University

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• Spatially dispersive optical effects in solids via Wannier interpolation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: A. Urru, I. Souza, Ó.P. Ocaña, S.S. Tsirkin, and D. Vanderbilt, Optical spatial dispersion via Wannier interpolation, Physical Review B 112, 045201 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Andrea Urru

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Andrea Urru

    • Rutgers University

  • Ivo Souza

    • Centro de Física de Materiales

  • Oscar Pozo Ocaña

  • Stepan Tsirkin

  • David Vanderbilt

    • Rutgers University

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