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In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

We report here chiroptical amplification effect occurring in the hybrid systems consisting of chiral molecules and Si nanostructures. Under resonant excitation of circularly polarized light, the hybrid systems show strong CD induction…

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

We theoretically investigate light matter interactions for chiral molecules in the presence of non-chiral nanoantennas. Isotropic nanostructures supporting optical-frequency electric or magnetic dipoles are sufficient to locally enhance the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri , Jennifer A. Dionne

Circular dichroism (CD) caused by the response of a chiral object to circularly polarized light has been well established, and the strong CD of plasmonic meta-molecules has also become of interest in recent years; however, their response if…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-30 Yangzhe Guo , Guodong Zhu , Wanlu Bian , Bin Dong , Yurui Fang

Molecular chirality is a key design property for many technologies including bioresponsive imaging, circularly polarized light detection and emission, molecular motors and switches. Imaging and manipulating the primary steps of transient…

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional analogues of metamaterials, are ideal platforms for sensing molecular chirality at the nanoscale, e.g. of inclusions of natural optically active molecules, as they offer large accessible areas (they are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Sotiris Droulias

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

It is very interesting to bring plasmonic circular dichroism spectroscopy to the mid-infrared spectral interval, and there are two reasons for this. This spectral interval is very important for thermal bio-imaging and, simultaneously, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 Xiang-Tian Kong , Runbo Zhao , Zhiming Wang , Alexander O. Govorov

Plasmon nanoantennas are extensively used with molecular systems for the chemical and biological ultra-sensing, for boosting the molecular emissive and energy transfer properties, for the nanoscale catalysis, and for building advanced…

Understanding chirality transfer from the molecular to the macroscopic scale poses a significant challenge in soft and biological condensed matter physics. Many nanorods of biological origin not only have chiral molecular features but also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-30 William S. Fall , Henricus H. Wensink

In this Account, we discuss a variety of static and dynamic chiral plasmonic nanostructures enabled by DNA nanotechnology. In the category of static plasmonic systems, we first show chiral plasmonic nanostructures based on spherical AuNPs,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Chao Zhou , Xiaoyang Duan , Na Liu

Circular dichroism (CD) induced by spin angular momentum of light is vital to investigate the chirality of microscopic objects such as molecules, proteins and metamaterials. However, orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light failed to…

Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with…

Chirality in inorganic nanoparticles and nanostructures has gained increasing scientific interest, because of the possibility to tune their ability to interact differently with left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. In some…

The transfer of chirality across length-scales is an intriguing and universal natural phenomenon. However, connecting the properties of individual building blocks to the emergent features of their resulting large-scale structure remains a…

In photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) it is generally difficult to trace how and when the chirality of the molecule is imprinted onto the photoelectron. We present simulations of PECD in a simple model and employ chirality measures to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Marec W. Heger , Daniel M. Reich

When a linear chain of plasmonic nano-particles is exposed to a transverse DC magnetic field, the chain modes are elliptically polarized, in a single plane parallel to the chain axis; hence, a novel longitudinal plasmon-rotation is created.…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-22 Yarden Mazor , Ben Z. Steinberg

Chiral quantum networks provide a promising route for realising quantum information processing and quantum communication. Here, we describe how two distant quantum nodes of chiral quantum network become dynamically entangled by a photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Wai-Keong Mok , Davit Aghamalyan , Jia-Bin You , Leong-Chuan Kwek

Increasing the sensitivity of chiral spectroscopic techniques such as circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a current aspiration in the research field of nanophotonics. Enhancing CD spectroscopy depends upon of two complementary…

Whether or not chiral interaction exists between the optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) and a chiral molecule remains unanswered. So far, such an interaction has not been observed experimentally. Here we present a T-matrix method to…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 Tong Wu , Rongyao Wang , Xiangdong Zhang