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Chirality is a structural property of molecules lacking mirror symmetry that has strong implications in diverse fields, ranging from life to materials sciences. Established spectroscopic methods that are sensitive to chirality, such as…

Chirality in quantum materials is a topic of significant importance due to its profound effects on the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of these systems. However, it is non-trivial to decouple the behavior of two enantiomorphs…

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

Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

Mirror symmetry is among the most fundamental concepts of physics and its spontaneous breaking at the molecular level allows chiral molecules to exist in two enantiomers that are mirror images of each other. The majority of chiro-optical…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-29 Alessandro Ciattoni

A different paradigm is proposed to selectively manipulate and transport small engineered chiral particles and discriminate different enantiomers using unstructured chiral light. It is theoretically shown that the response of a chiral…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-03 David E. Fernandes , Mário G. Silveirinha

The condition and specific features of non-dipole regime of radiation is discussed in connection with the results of recent CERN experiment NA63 on measurement of radiation power spectrum of $149\,$GeV electrons in thin tantalum targets.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Alex Fomin , Serguei Fomin , Nikolai Shul'ga

A thorough tensor analysis of the Bragg-forbidden reflection (00.3)$_h$ in corundum systems having a global center of inversion, like V$_2$O$_3$ and $\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$, shows that anomalous x-ray resonant diffraction can access chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Di Matteo , Y. Joly , A. Bombardi , L. Paolasini , F. de Bergevin , C. R. Natoli

We derive a microscopic optical potential for intermediate energies using ab initio translationally invariant nonlocal one-body nuclear densities computed within the no-core shell model (NCSM) approach utilizing two- and three-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Michael Gennari , Matteo Vorabbi , Angelo Calci , Petr Navratil

We derive expressions for the scattering, extinction and conversion of the chirality of monochromatic light scattered by bodies which are characterized by a T-matrix. In analogy to the conditions obtained from the conservation of energy,…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-22 Philipp Gutsche , Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

Many chirality-sensitive light-matter interactions are governed by chiral electron dynamics. Therefore, the development of advanced technologies harnessing chiral phenomena would critically benefit from measuring and controlling chiral…

Chiral nonlinear response has been explored for decades due to its extreme sensitivity to molecular and structural dissymmetry. Conventional approaches often require bulky systems and produce only static nonlinear chirality. Here, we report…

Controlling and channelling light emissions from unpolarized quantum dots into specific directions with chiral polarization remains a key challenge in modern photonics. Stacked metasurface designs offer a potential compact solution for…

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

Dark-field illumination is shown to make planar chiral nanoparticle arrangements exhibit circular dichroism in extinction analogous to true chiral scatterers. Circular dichrosim is experimentally observed at the maximum scattering of single…

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

In the framework of the perturbation theory of the nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics, a theory of spontaneous emission of a chiral molecule located near a chiral (bi-isotropic) spherical particle is developed. It is shown that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Dmitry Guzatov , Vasily Klimov

Chirality, a fundamental concept describing an object cannot superpose with its mirror image, is crucial in optics and photonics and leads to various exotic phenomena, such as circular dichroism, and optical activity. Recent findings reveal…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-13 Shijie Kang , Haitao Li , Jiayu Fan , Jiusi Yu , Boyang Qu , Peng Chen , Xiaoxiao Wu

Four crystal classes are optically active yet not chiral (non-enantiomorphic). Corresponding Bragg diffraction patterns calculated for circularly polarized (helical) x-rays tuned to an atomic resonance prove that angular anisotropy in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Stephen W. Lovesey

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