  Chiral induced spin selectivity is a phenomenon that has been attributed to
chirality, spin-orbit interactions, and non-equilibrium conditions, while the
role of electron exchange and correlations have been investigated only
marginally until very recently. However, as recent experiments show that chiral
molecules acquire a finite spin-polarization merely by being in contact with a
metallic surface, these results suggest that electron correlations play a more
crucial role for the emergence of the phenomenon than previously thought. Here,
it is demonstrated that molecular vibrations give rise to molecular charge
redistribution and accompanied spin-polarization when coupling a chiral
molecule to a non-magnetic metal. It is, moreover, shown that enantiomer
separation, due to spin-polarization intimately related to the chirality, can
be understood in terms of the proposed model.
