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ArticleScience advances2026

Dynamic breaking of mirror symmetry in spin-dependent electron transport through chiral media causes enantiomeric excesses.

Yossi Paltiel, Daniel Goldberg, Nir Yuran, Shira Yochelis, Jia Hao Soh, Christopher Seibel, Jürgen Gauss, Shmuel Zilberg, S Furkan Ozturk, Jonas Fransson and 2 more

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12 authors.

Yossi PaltielApplied Physics Institute, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-8739-9952
Daniel GoldbergApplied Physics Institute, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0009-0006-8664-246X
Nir YuranApplied Physics Institute, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0009-0008-2933-4721
Shira YochelisApplied Physics Institute, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Jia Hao SohDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-8742-9972
Christopher SeibelDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1513-1364
Jürgen GaussDepartment Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6432-9345
Shmuel ZilbergDepartment of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel 4076414, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-1227-7539
S Furkan OzturkDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1830-3619
Jonas FranssonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9217-2218
Anna I KrylovDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6788-5016
Ron NaamanDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1910-366X

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Abstract

Two fundamental questions have puzzled scientists for more than 150 years. "How did life become homochiral?" and "why was this specific handedness selected?" Recently, it has been shown that homochirality could have emerged through the enantioselective interactions of molecules with magnetic substrates due to the asymmetric crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetite substrate, abundant on early Earth. This phenomenon is based on the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. Despite its robustness, this model could not provide an answer to the second question: Why one specific handedness (D for RNA) was selected. Here, we demonstrate that spin-involving processes can have different outcomes in the two enantiomers of chiral molecules. In chiral molecules with unpaired electrons or while electrons are passing through them, the total angular momentum vector,

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