English
Related papers

Related papers: Using circular dichroism to control energy transfe…

200 papers

The possibility to convert the photon beam linear polarization into circular one at photon energies of hundreds GeV with the use of crystals is considered. The energy and orientation dependencies of refractive indexes are investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Z. Akopov , A. B. Apyan , S. M. Darbinyan

We present a theoretical study of photoexcitation of highly charged ions from their ground states, a process which can be realized at the Gamma Factory at CERN. Special attention is paid to the question of how the excitation rates are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Jan Richter , Anna V. Maiorova , Anna V. Viatkina , Dmitry Budker , Andrey Surzhykov

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

Chiral light-matter interactions have been investigated for two centuries, leading to the discovery of many chiroptical processes used for discrimination of enantiomers. Whereas most chiroptical effects result from a response of bound…

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

Light is one of the most powerful and precise tools allowing us to control, shape and create new phases of matter. In this task, the magnetic component of a light wave has so far played a unique role in defining the wave's helicity, but its…

Noncoplanar magnetic structures, such as magnetic skyrmions, are characterized by spin chirality and usually favored by antisymmetric exchange interactions in noncentrosymmetric magnets. Here, we show that a linearly polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-29 Atsushi Ono , Yutaka Akagi

Circular dichroism (CD), induced by chirality, is an important tool for manipulating light or for characterizing morphology of molecules, proteins, crystals and nano-structures. CD is manifested over a wide size-range, from molecules to…

Coherent light has revolutionized scientific research, spanning biology, chemistry, and physics. To delve into ultrafast phenomena, the development of high-energy, high-tunable light sources is instrumental. Here, the photo-electric effect…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Camilo Granados , Enrique G. Neyra , Lorena Rebón , Marcelo F. Ciappina

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to the fact that electrons get spin polarized after passing through organic chiral molecules in a nanoscale device. In CISS, chiral molecules are commonly believed to be a spin filter through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yotam Wolf , Yizhou Liu , Jiewen Xiao , Noejung Park , Binghai Yan

Chirality is a fundamental feature in all domains of nature, ranging from particle physics over electromagnetism to chemistry and biology. Chiral objects lack a mirror plane and inversion symmetry and therefore cannot be spatially aligned…

Strong-field ionization by counter-rotating two-color laser fields produces quantum interference between photoelectrons emitted on the leading and trailing edges of the laser field oscillations. We show that in chiral molecules, this…

Circular dichroism (CD) of photoemission from a surface state on Bi(111) is considered within an {\it ab initio} one-step theory of photoemission. The symmetry of the azimuthal distribution of CD for different spin directions is discussed…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-26 E. E. Krasovskii

Chiral active matter is a variant of active matter systems in which the motion of the constituent particles violates mirror symmetry. In this letter, we simulate two-dimensional chiral Active Brownian Particles, the simplest chiral model in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-03 Kangeun Jeong , Yuta Kuroda , Yuki Asatani , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

When polarized electrons traverse a region where the laser light is focused their polarization varies even if their energy and direction of motion are not changed. This effect is due to interference of the incoming electron wave and an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Kotkin , H. Perlt , V. G. Serbo

The chiral state of a molecule plays a crucial role in molecular recognition and biochemical reactions. Because of this and owing to the fact that most modern drugs are chiral, the sensitive and reliable detection of the chirality of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Luisa M. Kneer , Eva-Maria Roller , Lucas V. Besteiro , Robert Schreiber , Alexander O. Govorov , Tim Liedl

Molecular chirality is conventionally understood as space-inversion-symmetry breaking in the equilibrium structure of molecules. Less well known is that achiral molecules can be made chiral through extreme rotational excitation. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Alec Owens , Andrey Yachmenev , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jochen Küpper

We demonstrate that an effect phenomenologically analogous to circular dichroism can arise even for dielectric and isotropic chiral spherical particles. By analyzing the polarimetry of light scattered from a chiral, lossless microsphere…

Chiral molecular structures enable time-odd pseudotensor that controls correlations between photoelectron spin and molecular orientation in photoionization (arXiv:2505.22433). We show that chiral structures also support time-even…

We investigate, both theoretically and experimentally, the phenomenon of polarization rotation of a weak, linearly-polarized optical (probe) field in an atomic system with multiple three-level electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shujing Li , Bo Wang , Xudong Yang , Yanxu Han , Hai Wang , Min Xiao , K. C. Peng