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We study numerically the dynamics of acetanilide (ACN) molecules placed on a flat surface of a multilayer hexagonal boron nitride structure. We demonstrate that the ACN molecules, being achiral in three dimensions, become chiral after being…
We show that asymmetric transmission for linear polarizations can be easily achieved by a monolayer of anisotropic chiral metamolecules through the constructive and destructive interferences between the contributions from anisotropy and…
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