Exploiting lattice potentials for sorting chiral particles
Statistical Mechanics
2010-09-06 v1
Abstract
Several ways are demonstrated of how periodic potentials can be exploited for sorting molecules or other small objects which only differ by their chirality. With the help of a static bias force, the two chiral partners can be made to move along orthogonal directions. Time-periodic external forces even lead to motion into exactly opposite directions.
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@article{arxiv.1009.0650,
title = {Exploiting lattice potentials for sorting chiral particles},
author = {David Speer and Ralf Eichhorn and Peter Reimann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0650},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures