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Exceptional points (EPs) are remarkable spectral degeneracies in a non-Hermitian system's parameter space, where both eigenvalues and eigenstates coalesce. Here, we show that in non-Hermitian molecular chiral systems the position of EPs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Nicola Mayer , Alexander Löhr , Nimrod Moiseyev , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

The second-order nonlinear optical coefficients associated with chirality differ in sign for the two mirror-image forms (enantiomers) of a chiral material. Structures comprised of alternating stacks of the enantiomers can therefore be used…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Bertrand Busson , Martti Kauranen , Colin Nuckolls , Thomas Katz , André Persoons

We show that the position of the exceptional points (EPs) in the parameter space of a chiral molecule coupled to the photoionization continuum by a three-color field is enantiosensitive. Using a minimal model of a three-level system driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Nicola Mayer , Nimrod Moiseyev , Olga Smirnova

With their rich electronic, vibrational, rotational and hyperfine structure, molecular systems have the potential to play a decisive role in precision tests of fundamental physics. For example, electroweak nuclear interactions should cause…

We report anomalous circularly polarized Raman spectra of phonons in right- and left-handed quartzes. The phonon branches splitting from the E-mode at a finite wavenumber were found to be chiral with mutually opposite angular momenta. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-15 Eiichi Oishi , Yasuhiro Fujii , Akitoshi Koreeda

We devise a perturbation-immune version of Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields. Spectroscopy of an atomic clock transition without compromising the clock's accuracy is accomplished by actively balancing the spectroscopic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Christian Sanner , Nils Huntemann , Richard Lange , Christian Tamm , Ekkehard Peik

A novel approach for the state-specific enantiomeric enrichment and the spatial separation of enantiomers is presented. Our scheme utilizes techniques from strong-field laser physics, specifically an optical centrifuge in conjunction with a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Andrey Yachmenev , Jolijn Onvlee , Emil Zak , Alec Owens , Jochen Küpper

We develop the method of Ramsey spectroscopy with the use of an additional field compensating the frequency shifts of clock optical transitions. This method in combination with the method of magnetically induced excitation of strongly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin , C. W. Oates , Z. W. Barber , L. Hollberg

We study a modified Ramsey spectroscopy technique employing slowly decaying states for quantum metrology applications using dense ensembles. While closely positioned atoms exhibit superradiant collective decay and dipole-dipole induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Laurin Ostermann , David Plankensteiner , Helmut Ritsch , Claudiu Genes

With a microwave-regime cyclic three-state configuration, an enantiomer-selective state transfer~(ESST) is carried out through the two-path interference between a direct one-photon coupling and an effective two-photon coupling. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Jin-Lei Wu , Yan Wang , Jin-Xuan Han , Cong Wang , Shi-Lei Su , Yan Xia , Yongyuan Jiang , Jie Song

Recently, two related three wave mixing experiments have been demonstrated that use allowed rotational transitions to produce a free induction decay signal with an amplitude linearly proportional to the enantiomeric excess of a chiral…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Kevin K. Lehmann

We propose a method to separate enantiomers using parity violation in the Casimir-Polder potential between chiral mirrors and chiral molecules. The proposed setup involves a molecular beam composed of chiral molecules passing through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 Fumika Suzuki , Takamasa Momose , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

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

We present a comprehensive study of enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules excited by a pair of delayed cross-polarized femtosecond laser pulses. We show that by optimizing the pulses' parameters, a significant (~ 10%) degree of…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Long Xu , Ilia Tutunnikov , Yehiam Prior , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Quantum entanglement is a powerful quantum resource for enhancing measurement precision beyond classical limit. % Here we propose an entanglement-enhanced symmetry-protected destructive many-body Ramsey interferometry for precise parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Sijie Chen , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

Probing an atomic resonance without disturbing it is an ubiquitous issue in physics. This problem is critical in high-accuracy spectroscopy or for the next generation of atomic optical clocks. Ultra-high resolution frequency metrology…

When the weak-forces producing parity-violating effects are taken into account, there is a tiny energy difference between the total electronic energies of two enantiomers ($\Delta E_{PV}$), which might be the key to understand the evolution…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Juan J. Aucar , Alessandro Stroppa , Gustavo A. Aucar

The spontaneous emission spectrum of a multi-level atom or molecule with nonreciprocal transition is investigated. It is shown that the nonreciprocal transition can lead to the elimination of a spectral line in the spontaneous emission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Xun-Wei Xu , Chong Ye , Yong Li , Ai-Xi Chen

Polar molecules are desirable systems for quantum simulations and cold chemistry. Molecular ions are easily trapped, but a bias electric field applied to polarize them tends to accelerate them out of the trap. We present a general solution…

We proposed a spectroscopic method that extends Ramsey's atomic spectroscopy to detect the transition frequency of a qubit fabricated on a superconducting circuit. The method uses a multi-interval train of qubit biases to implement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yan Zhang , Tiantian Huan , Ri-gui Zhou , Hou Ian