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Topological invariants are crucial quantities for classifying materials with topological phases. Hence, their connections with experimentally measurable quantities are extremely important. In this context, circular dichroism (CD) provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Ipsita Mandal

We show that the intensity of pumped states near Weyl point is different when pumped with left- and right-handed circular polarized light, which leads to a special circular dichroism (CD) in time-dependent angle resolved photoemission…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Rui Yu , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang , Hong Ding , Xi Dai

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)…

Chiral crystals show promise for spintronic technologies on account of their high spin selectivity, which has led to significant recent interest in quantitative characterization and first-principles prediction of their spin-optoelectronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Christian Multunas , Andrew Grieder , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

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

Chiral perovskites owing to their broken mirror symmetry exhibit selective absorption of circularly polarized light manifesting a strong circular dichroism (CD). CD spectroscopy has been a key technique to understand chiral perovskites and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Reshna Shrestha , Wanyi Nie

We propose an approach to sensitively probe the chirality of molecules by measuring their coherent optical absorption spectra. It is shown that quantum dynamics of the cyclic three-level chiral molecules driven by appropriately-designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Z. Jia , L. F. Wei

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…

Molecular Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy faces significant limitations due to the inherent weakness of chiroptical light-matter interactions. In this view, resonant optical antennas constitute a promising solution to this problem…

The near-field interaction of plasmonic nanostructures and chiral molecules induces circular dichroism in achiral nanostructure. The induced circular dichroism (ICD) strength is several orders greater than the molecular inherent CD (MCD),…

Polarization-dependent photon spectroscopy (dichroism) using signal-enhancing superchiral beams is shown to be sensitive to magnetic properties of the sample, whereas previous investigations explored charge-like electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 S. W. Lovesey , J. T. Collins , S. P. Collins

Far-UV circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy provides a rapid, sensitive, nondestructive tool to analyze protein conformation by monitoring secondary structure composition. Originally intended for educational purposes, a spreadsheet-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-12 Luciano A. Abriata

Chirality is a fundamental feature in all domains of nature, ranging from particle physics over electromagnetism to chemistry and biology. Chiral objects lack a mirror plane and inversion symmetry and therefore cannot be spatially aligned…

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

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…

We report on giant circular dichroism (CD) of a molecule inserted into a plasmonic hot spot. Naturally occurring molecules and biomolecules have typically CD signals in the UV range, whereas plasmonic nanocrystals exhibit strong plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hui Zhang , A. O. Govorov

We introduce chiral rotational spectroscopy: a new technique that enables the determination of the orientated optical activity pseudotensor components $B_{XX}$, $B_{YY}$ and $B_{ZZ}$ of chiral molecules, in a manner that reveals the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-01-16 Robert P. Cameron , Jörg B. Götte , Stephen M. Barnett

The plasmonic chirality has drawn a lot of attention because of the tunable circular dichroism (CD) and the enhancement for the signal of chiral molecules. Different mechanisms have been proposed for explaining the plasmonic CD, however, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Li Hu , Xiaorui Tian , Yingzhou Huang , Xinqiang Wang , Yurui Fang

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…

We describe an optical near shot-noise limited time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD) pump-probe spectrometer capable of reliably measuring {\mu}deg circular dichroism signal with nanosecond time resolution. Such sensitivity is achieved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 Valentyn Stadnytskyi , Gregory S. Orf , Robert E. Blankenship , Sergei Savikhin