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We present an experimental X-ray photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) study of liquid fenchone at the C 1s edge. A novel setup to enable PECD measurements on a liquid microjet [Malerz et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum., 2022, 93, 015101] was…

We present the first photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) measurements of chiral alcohols, and in particular 1-Phenylethanol, using multiphoton ionization at 400 nm. Observed PECD values were rather small at $\sim2$%, but could be…

Spectroscopic techniques that are sensitive to molecular chirality are important analytical tools to quantitatively determine enantiomeric excess and purity of chiral molecular samples. Many chiroptical processes however produce weak…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Sebastian Hartweg , Dusan k. Bozanic , Gustavo A. Garcia-Macias , Laurent Nahon

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a method whereby randomly oriented chiral molecules are irradiated by circularly-polarized light, photoionizing electrons, which are measured in a momentum-resolved manner. This scheme permits…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Ofer Neufeld

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a method where randomly oriented chiral molecules are photoionized due to irradiation by circularly-polarized lasers, yielding large chiral signals in the photoelectron momentum distribution.…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gal Bouskila , Avner Fleischer , Ofer Neufeld

Photoelectron circular dichroism in the one-photon detachment of a model methane-like chiral anionic system is studied theoretically by the single center method. The computed chiral asymmetry, characterized by the dichroic parameter…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2022-02-02 Anton N. Artemyev , Eric Kutscher , Philipp V. Demekhin

We report on a joint experimental and theoretical study of photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in methyloxirane. By detecting O 1s-photoelectrons in coincidence with fragment ions, we deduce the molecule's orientation and photoelectron…

Amino acids and other small chiral molecules play key roles in biochemistry. However, in order to understand how these molecules behave in vivo, it is necessary to study them under aqueous-phase conditions. Photoelectron circular dichroism…

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a fascinating phenomenon both from a fundamental science aspect but also due to its emerging role as a highly sensitive analytic tool for chiral recognition in the gas phase. PECD has been studied…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Alexander Kastner , Tom Ring , Hendrike Braun , Arne Senftleben , Thomas Baumert

Using a model methane-like chiral system, we theoretically demonstrate a possibility to access photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) by a single experiment with two overlapping laser pulses of carrier frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$,…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-12-20 Philipp V. Demekhin , Anton N. Artemyev , Alexander Kastner , Thomas Baumert

Photoelectron circular dichroism refers to the forward/backward asymmetry in the photoelectron angular distribution with respect to the propagation axis of circularly polarized light. It has recently been demonstrated in femtosecond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 R. E. Goetz , T. A. Isaev , B. Nikoobakht , R. Berger , C. P. Koch

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

Chiral molecules exhibit enantiosensitive light-matter interactions, with photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) serving as a sensitive probe of molecular chirality through the asymmetry in the photoelectron wavepacket amplitude. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Zheming Zhou , Yang Li , Xu Zhang , Yueming Zhou , Peixiang Lu

Unravelling the main initial dynamics responsible for chiral recognition is a key stepin the understanding of many biological processes. However this challenging task requires a sensitive enantiospecic probe to investigate molecular…

The photoionization of chiral molecules prepared in a coherent superposition of excited states can give access to the underlying chiral coherent dynamics in a procedure known as photoexcitation induced photoelectron circular dichroism…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-08-29 Alex G Harvey , Zdeněk Mašín , Olga Smirnova

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in different regimes of multiphoton ionization of fenchone is studied theoretically using the time-dependent single center method. In particular, we investigate the chiral response to the one-color…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2020-01-24 Anne D. Müller , Eric Kutscher , Anton N. Artemyev , Philipp V. Demekhin

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

Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a highly sensitive enantiospecific spectroscopy for studying chiral molecules in the gas phase using either single-photon ionization or multiphoton ionization. In the short pulse limit investigated…

It is commonly accepted that the magnitude of a photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is governed by the ability of an outgoing photoelectron wave packet to probe the chiral asymmetry of a molecule. To be able to accumulate this…

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