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Enantiomeric excess determination based on nonreciprocal transition induced spectral line elimination

Quantum Physics 2020-10-07 v1 Optics

Abstract

The spontaneous emission spectrum of a multi-level atom or molecule with nonreciprocal transition is investigated. It is shown that the nonreciprocal transition can lead to the elimination of a spectral line in the spontaneous emission spectrum. As an application, we show that nonreciprocal transition arises from the phase-related driving fields in chiral molecules with cyclic three-level transitions, and the elimination of a spectral line induced by nonreciprocal transition provides us a method to determine the enantiomeric excess for the chiral molecules without requiring the enantio-pure samples.

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@article{arxiv.1911.08804,
  title  = {Enantiomeric excess determination based on nonreciprocal transition induced spectral line elimination},
  author = {Xun-Wei Xu and Chong Ye and Yong Li and Ai-Xi Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08804},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures