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We propose an enantio-detection method of chiral molecules in a cavity with external drive. The chiral molecules are coupled with a quantized cavity field and two classical light fields to form the cyclic three-level systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Yu-Yuan Chen , Jian-Jian Cheng , Chong Ye , Yong Li

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

Detecting and controlling the chirality of materials play an essential role in exploring nature, providing new avenues for material creation, discrimination, and manipulation. In such tasks, chiral reagents are essential in defining or…

We propose a gain-assisted enantioselective scheme in dye-doped chiral particles, demonstrating optical pulling and pushing forces that can be tuned using externally controllable parameters. By controlling the concentration of dye molecules…

We show, both classically and quantum mechanically, enantioselective orientation of gas phase chiral molecules excited by laser fields with twisted polarization. Counterintuitively, the induced orientation, whose direction is laser…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Ilia Tutunnikov , Johannes Floß , Erez Gershnabel , Paul Brumer , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

A novel approach for the state-specific enantiomeric enrichment and the spatial separation of enantiomers is presented. Our scheme utilizes techniques from strong-field laser physics, specifically an optical centrifuge in conjunction with a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Andrey Yachmenev , Jolijn Onvlee , Emil Zak , Alec Owens , Jochen Küpper

The goal of entanglement distillation is to turn a large number of weakly entangled states into a smaller number of highly entangled ones. Practical entanglement distillation schemes offer a tradeoff between the fidelity to the target…

Recently, several laser schemes have been proposed to separate racemic mixtures of enantiomers by splitting a molecular beam into subbeams consisting of molecules of definite chirality [Y. Li, C. Bruder, and C. P. Sun, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Andreas Jacob , Klaus Hornberger

We present a way for the entanglement distillation of genuine mixed state. Different from the conventional mixed state in entanglement purification protocol, each components of the mixed state in our protocol is a less-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou

We introduce an ultrafast all-optical approach for efficient chiral recognition which relies on the interference between two low-order nonlinear processes which are ubiquitous in nonlinear optics: sum-frequency generation and third-harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-09 Josh Vogwell , Laura Rego , Olga Smirnova , David Ayuso

State-selective enantiomeric excess is realized using microwave-driven coherent population transfer. The method selectively promotes either R or S molecules to a higher rotational state by phase-controlled microwave pulses that drive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Sandra Eibenberger , John Doyle , David Patterson

Chiral molecules with broken parity symmetries can be modeled as quantum systems with cyclic-transition structures. By using these novel properties, we design two-step laser pulses to distinguish left- and right-handed molecules from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei

Based on cyclic three-level systems of chiral molecules, we propose two methods to realize highly efficient inner-state enantio-separations of a chiral mixture with the two enantiomers initially prepared in their ground states. Our methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-16 Chong Ye , Quansheng Zhang , Yu-Yuan Chen , Yong Li

Chirality and chiral molecules are key elements in modern chemical and biochemical industries. Individual addressing, and the eventual separation of chiral enantiomers has been and still is an important elusive task in molecular physics and…

We propose a method to realize enantiodiscrimination of chiral molecules based on quantum correlation function in a driven cavity-molecule system, where the chiral molecule is coupled with a quantized cavity field and two classical light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Fen Zou , Yu-Yuan Chen , Bo Liu , Yong Li

Entanglement distillation is the process of concentrating entanglement from a given quantum state. We present a technique for distillation of bi-partite polarization entanglement using interferometry. This technique can be optimized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Chithrabhanu Perumangatt , Tang Zong Sheng , Alexander Ling

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

Chiral systems exhibit unique properties traditionally linked to their asymmetric spatial arrangement. Recently, multiple laser pulses were shown to induce purely electronic chiral states without altering the nuclear configuration. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Torsha Moitra , Lukas Konecny , Marius Kadek , Ofer Neufeld , Angel Rubio , Michal Repisky

Chiral crystals offer an unique platform for controlling structural handedness through external stimuli. However, the ability to select between structural enantiomers remains challenging, both theoretically and experimentally. In this work,…

As much as chiral metasurfaces are significant in stereochemistry and polarization control, tunable chiroptical response is important for their dynamic counterparts. A single metasurface device with invertible chiral states can selectively…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-07 Andrew S. Kim , Anjan Goswami , Mohammad Taghinejad , Wenshan Cai