Ultrafast Coherent Delocalization Revealed in Multilayer QDs under a Chiral Potential.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, it was found that current passing through chiral molecules exhibits spin preference, an effect known as Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS). The effect also enables the reduction of scattering and therefore enhances delocalization. As a result, the delocalization of an exciton generated in the dots is not symmetric and relates to the electronic and hole excited spins. In this work utilizing fast spectroscopy on hybrid multilayered QDs with a chiral polypeptide linker system, we probed the interdot chiral coupling on a short time scale. Surprisingly, we found strong coherent coupling and delocalization despite having long 4-nm chiral linkers. We ascribe the results to asymmetric delocalization that is controlled by the electron spin. The effect is not measured when using

SUBMITTER: Fridman HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11139383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature