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We predict a discriminatory interaction between a chiral molecule and an achiral molecule which is mediated by a chiral body. To achieve this, we generalize the van der Waals interaction potential between two ground-state molecules with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Pablo Barcellona , Hassan Safari , A. Salam , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

It has been long recognized that the spatial polarization of the electronic clouds in molecules, and the spatial arrangements of atoms into chiral molecular structures, play crucial roles in physics, chemistry and biology. However, these…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-14 David Ayuso , Andres Ordonez , Piero Decleva , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

The development of efficient techniques to distinguish mirror images of chiral molecules (enantiomers) is very important in both chemistry and physics. Enantiomers share most molecular properties except, for instance, the absorption of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Rosario R. Riso , Laura Grazioli , Enrico Ronca , Tommaso Giovannini , Henrik Koch

Molecular matter-wave interferometry enables novel strategies for manipulating the internal mechanical motion of complex molecules. Here, we show how chiral molecules can be prepared in a quantum superposition of two enantiomers by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Benjamin A. Stickler , Mira Diekmann , Robert Berger , Daqing Wang

Chirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery. We introduce here the description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , A. Lattanzi

Chirality, nonreciprocity, and quantum correlations are at the center of a wide range of intriguing effects and applications across natural sciences and emerging quantum technologies. However, the direct link combining these three essential…

We investigate quantum transport in a two-dimensional electron system coupled to a chiral molecular potential, demonstrating how molecular chirality and orientation affect charge and spin transport properties. We propose a minimal model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ragheed Alhyder , Mikhail Lemeshko , Alberto Cappellaro

Geometrical chirality is a universal property encountered on very different length scales ranging from geometrical shapes of living organisms to protein and DNA molecules. Interaction of chiral matter with chiral light - that is,…

We explore the interplay between tunneling process and chiral interactions in the discrimination of chiral states for an ensemble of molecules in a biological environment. Each molecule is described by an asymmetric double-well potential…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-28 Arash Tirandaz , Farhad Taher Ghahramani , Afshin Shafiee

Enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules excited by a shaped picosecond laser pulse and a delayed femtosecond pulse is considered. Using quantum mechanical simulations, we demonstrate a strong field-free enantioselective orientation…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-31 Long Xu

The coalescence of three levels has particular attractive features. Even though it may be difficult to realise such event in the laboratory (three additional real parameters must be adjusted), to take up the challenge seems worthwhile. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. D. Heiss

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 present a novel approach to chiral discrimination using gate-based quantum processors, addressing a key challenge in adapting conventional control techniques using modern quantum computing. Schemes such as stimulated rapid adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Muhammad Arsalan Ali Akbar , Sabre Kais

Today we are witnessing the electric-dipole revolution in chiral measurements. Here we reflect on its lessons and outcomes, such as the perspective on chiral measurements using the complementary principles of "chiral reagent" and "chiral…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 David Ayuso , Andres F. Ordonez , Olga Smirnova

The chirality of chiral multifold fermions in reciprocal space is related to the chirality of the crystal lattice structure in real space. In this work, we propose a strategy to detect and identify opposite-chirality multifold fermions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-24 Yan Sun , Qiunan Xu , Yang Zhang , Congcong Le , Claudia Felser

Electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectroscopy captures the chiroptical response of molecules, enabling absolute configuration assignment that is vital for enantioselective synthesis and drug design. The practical use of ECD spectra in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Sabre Kais

Sensing and discriminating between enantiomers of chiral molecules remains a significant challenge in the design of sensor platforms. In the case of chemoresistive sensors, where detection relies on changes in electrical response upon…

Molecules that only differ by their chirality, so called enantiomers, often possess different properties with respect to their biological function. Therefore, the separation of enantiomers presents a prominent challenge in molecular biology…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcin Kostur , Michael Schindler , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

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…

Chiral discrimination, a problem of vital importance, has recently become an emerging frontier in ultrafast physics, with remarkable progress achieved in multiphoton and strong-field regimes. Rydberg excitations, unavoidable in the…