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We present a rigorous finite element method to calculate circular dichroism (CD) in various systems consisting of nanostructures and oriented chiral molecules with electric quadrupole transitions. The interaction between oriented molecule…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-27 Weixuan Zhang , Tong Wu , Rongyao Wang , Xiangdong Zhang

We predict a discriminatory interaction between a chiral molecule and an achiral molecule which is mediated by a chiral body. To achieve this, we generalize the van der Waals interaction potential between two ground-state molecules with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Pablo Barcellona , Hassan Safari , A. Salam , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Circular Dichroism (CD) can distinguish the handedness of chiral molecules. However, it is typically very weak due to vanishing absorption at low molecular concentrations. Here, we suggest Thermal Circular Dichroism (TCD) for chiral…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-19 Ershad Mohammadi , Giulia Tagliabue

Exceptional points (EPs) are remarkable spectral degeneracies in a non-Hermitian system's parameter space, where both eigenvalues and eigenstates coalesce. Here, we show that in non-Hermitian molecular chiral systems the position of EPs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Nicola Mayer , Alexander Löhr , Nimrod Moiseyev , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Chiral discrimination that is efficient to tiny amounts of chiral substances, especially at the single-molecule level, is highly demanded. Here, we propose a single-shot nondestructive quantum sensing method addressing such an issue. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Chong Ye , Yifan Sun , Yong Li , Xiangdong Zhang

To all appearances, electron impact mass spectrometer (EI-MS) is considered a "chirally blind" instrument. Yet, numerous non-identical R (right) and S (left) configurations of prochiral alcohols' mass spectra alcohols have appeared in the…

We derive here a new highly selective photoelectron-based chirality-sensing technique that utilizes 'locally-chiral' laser pulses. We show that this approach results in strong chiral discrimination, where the standard forwards/backwards…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Ofer Neufeld , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio , Umberto De Giovannini

Recently developed circularly polarized X-ray light sources can probe ultrafast chiral electronic and nuclear dynamics through spatially localized resonant core transitions. We present simulations of time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jérémy R. Rouxel , Markus Kowalewski , Shaul Mukamel

Chiral nanophotonic devices are promising candidates for chiral molecules sensing, polarization diverse nanophotonics and display technologies. Active chiral nanophotonic devices, where the optical chirality can be controlled by an external…

Entanglement of remote atom lasers is obtained via quantum state transfer technique from lights to matter waves in a five-level $M$-type system. The considered atom-atom collisions can yield an effective Kerr susceptibility for this system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiong-Jun Liu , Hui Jing , Xin Liu , Ming-Sheng Zhan , Mo-Lin Ge

Chiral molecules are widespread in nature, playing a fundamental role in bio-chemical processes and in the origin of life itself. The observation of dynamics in chiral molecules is crucial for the understanding and control of the chiral…

Locally chiral light is an emerging tool for probing and controlling molecular chirality. It can generate large and freely adjustable enantioselectivities in purely electric-dipole effects, offering its major advantages over traditional…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-19 Chong Ye , Yifan Sun , Libin Fu , Xiangdong Zhang

A novel optical method for distinguishing chiral molecules is proposed and validated within a quantum simulator employing a trapped-ion qudit. This approach correlates the sign disparity of the dipole moment of chiral molecules with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Teng Liu , Fa Zhao , Pengfei Lu , Qifeng Lao , Min Ding , Ji Bian , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

Enantio-conversion of chiral mixtures, converting the mixtures composed of left- and right-handed chiral molecules into the homochiral ensembles, has become an important research topic in chemical and biological fields. In previous studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Fen Zou , Chong Ye , Yong Li

We explore the photodissociation of polar dimers in static electric fields in the cold regime using the example of the LiCs molecule. A giant enhancement of the differential cross section is found for laboratory electric field strengths,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 R. González-Férez , P. Schmelcher

Superchiral field is highly important for ultrasensitive detection of chiral objects and has been intensively explored. Despite the progress, the construction of electromagnetic field in achiral nanostructures with giant chirality (C) is…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-19 Hamdi Barkaoui , Kang Du , Yimu Chen , Shumin Xiao , Qinghai Song

We discuss the effect of strong electromagnetic fields on chiral orientation in the framework of the linear $\sigma$ model. Based on lessons we learn from computation of the effective potential at one loop, we argue that the chiral U(1)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hisakazu Minakata , Berndt Muller

The recently introduced synthetic chiral light [D. Ayuso et al, Nat. Photon. 13, 866-871 (2019)] has opened up new opportunities for ultrafast and highly efficient imaging and control of chiral matter. Here we show that the giant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Ayuso

We show that the position of the exceptional points (EPs) in the parameter space of a chiral molecule coupled to the photoionization continuum by a three-color field is enantiosensitive. Using a minimal model of a three-level system driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Nicola Mayer , Nimrod Moiseyev , Olga Smirnova

Artificial magnetic fields break time-reversal symmetry in engineered materials--also known as metamaterials, enabling robust, topological transport of neutral excitations, much like electronic conduction edge channels in the integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Jesse J. Slim , Javier del Pino , Ewold Verhagen