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The circular dichroism (ICD) induced from interaction of chiral molecules with achiral plasmonic metal nanostructures has improved sensitivity of molecular chirality detection. Although experimental results have presented several orders…

Researchers routinely sense molecules by their infrared vibrational "fingerprint" absorption resonances. In addition, the dominant handedness of chiral molecules can be detected by circular dichroism (CD), the normalized difference between…

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

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…

Chiral objects typically exhibit a different extinction for the two circular polarizations of light. Researchers often detect the chirality of objects by measuring this extinction difference employing Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy.…

Selective sensing of chiral molecules is a key aspect in fields spanning biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. However, conventional optical methods, such as circular dichroism (CD), encounter limitations owing to weak chiral light-matter…

We calculate the circular dichroism (CD) for absorption of the twisted photons, or optical vortices, by atoms, caused by atomic excitation into discrete energy levels. The effects of photon spin on the rates and cross sections of atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Maria Solyanik

Strong enhancement of molecular circular dichroism has the potential to enable efficient asymmetric photolysis, a method of chiral separation that has conventionally been impeded by insufficient yield and low enantiomeric excess. Here, we…

Developing effective methods to measure the enantiomeric excess of the chiral mixture is one of the major topics in chiral molecular researches, yet remains challenging. Enantiodetection method via two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy based on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Mao-Rui Cai , Chong Ye , Yong Li , Hui Dong

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

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…

Enantiodetection is an important and challenging task across natural science. Nowadays, some chiroptical methods of enantiodetection based on decoherence-free cyclic three-level models of chiral molecules can reach the ultimate limit of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Chong Ye , Xiaowei Mu , Yifan Sun , Libin Fu , Xiangdong Zhang

Circular dichroism (CD) of photoemission from a surface state on Bi(111) is considered within an {\it ab initio} one-step theory of photoemission. The symmetry of the azimuthal distribution of CD for different spin directions is discussed…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-26 E. E. Krasovskii

Enantiodetection of chiral molecules is important to pharmaceutical drug production, chemical reaction control, and biological function designs. Traditional optical methods of enantiodetection rely on the weak magnetic-dipole or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Mao-Rui Cai , Chong Ye , Hui Dong , Yong Li

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 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

Electronic circular dichroism (ECD) is a powerful spectroscopical method for investigating chiral properties at the molecular level. ECD calculations with the commonly used linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT)…

The theory to calculate circular dichroism (CD) of chiral molecules in a finite cluster with arbitrarily disposed objects has been developed by means of T-matrix method. The interactions between chiral molecules and nanostructures have been…

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

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…

Chiral molecule assignation is crucial for asymmetric catalysis, functional materials, and the drug industry. The conventional approach requires theoretical calculations of electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra, which is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hao Li , Da Long , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian , Xinchang Wang , Fanyang Mo