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Spatial enantioseparation of gaseous chiral molecules

Atomic Physics 2021-11-16 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We explore the spatial enantioseparation of gaseous chiral molecules for the cyclic three-level systems coupled with three electromagnetic fields. Due to molecular rotations, the specific requirements of the polarization directions of the three electromagnetic fields lead to the space-dependent part of the overall phase of the coupling strengths. Thus, the overall phase of the coupling strengths, which differs with π\pi for the enantiomers in the cyclic three-level model of chiral molecules, varies intensely in the length scale of the typical wavelength of the applied electromagnetic fields. Under the induced gauge potentials resulting from the space-dependent part of the overall phase and the space-dependent intensities of coupling strengths, we further show spatial enantioseparation for typical parameters of gaseous chiral molecules.

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@article{arxiv.2103.01758,
  title  = {Spatial enantioseparation of gaseous chiral molecules},
  author = {Bo Liu and Chong Ye and C. P. Sun and Yong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01758},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures