skip to main content
Caltech
Ozturk Lab
Home  /  Publications

Publications

Close
Google Scholar
Google Scholar

2025

Ozturk, S. F. and Sasselov, D. D. (2025) Life's Homochirality—Across a Prebiotic Network. In Review.

Fransson, J., Kapon, Y., Brann, L., Yochelis, S., Sasselov, D. D., Paltiel, Y., & Ozturk, S. F. (2025). Chiral Phonons Enhance Ferromagnetism. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16(8), 2001-2007.

2024

Kapon, Y., Brann, L., Yochelis, S., Fransson, J., Sasselov, D. D., Paltiel, Y., Ozturk, S. F. (2024) Nonclassical temperature dependence of chirality-induced magnetization and its implications for RNA's homochirality. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05720. In Review.

Ozturk, S. F. (2024). A New Spin on the Origin of Biological Homochirality (Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences). [link]

2023

Su, L., Douglas, A., Szurek, M., Groth, R., Ozturk, S. F., Krahn, A., ... & Greiner, M. (2023). Dipolar quantum solids emerging in a Hubbard quantum simulator. Nature 622, 724–729.

Ozturk, S. F., Bhowmick, D. K., Kapon, Y., Sang, Y., Kumar, A., Paltiel, Y., Naaman, R. & Sasselov, D. D. (2023). Chirality-induced avalanche magnetization of magnetite by an RNA precursor. Nature Communications, 14(1), 6351.

Ozturk, S. F., Sutherland J. D., & Sasselov, D. D. (2023). The central dogma of biological homochirality: How does chiral information propagate in a prebiotic network? Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(6), 061102.

Ozturk, S. F., Liu, Z., Sutherland, J. D., & Sasselov, D. D. (2023). Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetic surface. Science Advances, 9(23), eadg8274.

  • Service, R. (2023). 'Breakthrough' could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed. Science, 380-6650.
  • Saplakoglu, Y. (2023). Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry. Quanta Magazine

2022

Ozturk, S. F. & Sasselov, D. D. (2022). On the origins of life's homochirality: Inducing enantiomeric excess with spin-polarized electrons. PNAS, 119(28), e2204765119.

  • Greed, S. (2022). The dawn of asymmetry. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 1-1.
  • Bloom, B. P., Waldeck, A. R., & Waldeck, D. H. (2022). Homochirality and chiral-induced spin selectivity: A new spin on the origin of life. PNAS, 119(34), e2210505119.

2020

Ozturk, S. F., Aybar, E., Oktel, M. Ö. (2020). Temperature dependence of the density and excitations of dipolar droplets. Physical Review A, 102(3), 033329.

Phelps, G. A., Hébert, A., Krahn, A., Dickerson, S., Ozturk, S. F., Ebadi, S., Su, L., & Greiner, M. (2020). Sub-second production of a quantum degenerate gas. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10807.