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Chiroptical enantioselective sensing is gaining traction across various applications. However, intrinsic molecular chiroptical responses are weak, and existing amplification approaches add synthesis, manufacturing, or operational complexity…

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We investigate how optimal control theory can be used to improve Circular Dichroism (CD) signals for A--band of fenchone measured via the photoionization yield upon further excitation. These transitions are electric dipole forbidden to…

This work presents a quantum-limited optomechanical sensing platform for real-time detection and discrimination of chiral molecules, based on a multilayer hybrid plasmonic-mechanical resonator. Leveraging quantum zero-point motion and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-29 Giuseppina Simone

Chiral discrimination of enantiomeric biomolecules is vital in chemistry, biology, and medicine. Conventional methods, relying on circularly polarized light, face weak chiroptical signals and potential photodamage. Despite extensive efforts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yiquan Yang , Xiaolong Hu , Wei Du , Shuhe Wu , Peiyu Yang , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

The most important problem of spectroscopic chiral analysis is the inherently weak chiral signals are easily overwhelmed by the environment noises. Enormous efforts had been spent to overcome this problem by enhancing the symmetry break in…

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

Circular dichroism (CD) sensing plays a pivotal role in probing molecular chirality in biomedical sciences. However, engineering superchiral electromagnetic fields that can reliably amplify the faint signatures of chiral analytes remains…

The concentration of a chiral solution is a key parameter in many scientific fields and industrial processes. This parameter can be estimated to high precision by exploiting circular birefringence or circular dichroism present in optically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Alexandre Belsley , Jonathan C. F. Matthews

The differential response of chiral molecules to incident left- and right- handed circularly polarized light is used for sensing the handedness of molecules. Currently, significant effort is directed towards enhancing weak differential…

We report on the absolute calibration of a CCD camera by exploiting quantum correlation. This novel method exploits a certain number of spatial pairwise quantum correlated modes produced by spontaneous parametric-down-conversion. We develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 I. Ruo-Berchera , A. Meda , I. P. Degiovanni , G. Brida , M. L. Rastello , M. Genovese

The development of new techniques to improve measurements is crucial for all sciences. By employing quantum systems as sensors to probe some physical property of interest allows the application of quantum resources, such as coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 G. H. Aguilar , M. A. de Souza , R. M. Gomes , J. Thompson , M. Gu , L. C. Céleri , S. P. Walborn

Chiral molecules show differences in their chemical and optical properties due to different spatial arrangements of the atoms in the two enantiomers. A common way to optically differentiate them is to detect the disparity in the absorption…

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization and first-principles prediction of their spin-optoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Christian Multunas , Andrew Grieder , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The near-field interaction of plasmonic nanostructures and chiral molecules induces circular dichroism in achiral nanostructure. The induced circular dichroism (ICD) strength is several orders greater than the molecular inherent CD (MCD),…

Quantum discrimination and estimation are pivotal for many quantum technologies, and their performance depends on the optimal choice of probe state and measurement. Here we show that their performance can be further improved by suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Daniel Basilewitsch , Haidong Yuan , Christiane P. Koch

Measurements approaching the ultimate quantum limits of sensitivity are central in quantum information processing, quantum metrology, and communication. Quantum measurements to discriminate multiple states at the single-photon level are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 A. R. Ferdinand , M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

We demonstrate coherent control over the photoelectron circular dichroism in randomly oriented chiral molecules, based on quantum interference between multiple photoionization pathways. To significantly enhance the chiral signature, we use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 R. Esteban Goetz , Christiane P. Koch , Loren Greenman

Molecular chirality detection and enantiomer discrimination are very important issues for many areas of science and technology, prompting intensive investigations via optical methods. However, these methods are hindered by the intrinsically…

Recently, chiral structured illumination microscopy has been proposed to image fluorescent chiral domains at sub-wavelength resolution. Chiral structured illumination microscopy is based on the combination of structured illumination…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Shiang-Yu Huang , Ankit Kumar Singh , Jer-Shing Huang

Quantum systems are powerful detectors with wide-ranging applications from scanning probe microscopy of materials to biomedical imaging. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, for instance, can be operated as qubits for sensing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Christopher I. Timms , Michael H. Kolodrubetz