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Enantiodiscrimination of chiral molecules via quantum correlation function

Quantum Physics 2022-08-12 v2

Abstract

We propose a method to realize enantiodiscrimination of chiral molecules based on quantum correlation function in a driven cavity-molecule system, where the chiral molecule is coupled with a quantized cavity field and two classical light fields to form a cyclic three-level model. According to the inherent properties of electric-dipole transition moments of chiral molecules, there is a π\pi-phase difference in the overall phase of the cyclic three-level model for the left- and right-handed chiral molecules. Thus, the correlation function depends on this overall phase and is chirality-dependent. The analytical and numerical results indicate that the left- and right-handed chiral molecules can be discriminated by detecting quantum correlation function. Our work opens up a promising route to discriminate molecular chirality, which is an extremely important task in pharmacology and biochemistry.

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@article{arxiv.2201.01925,
  title  = {Enantiodiscrimination of chiral molecules via quantum correlation function},
  author = {Fen Zou and Yu-Yuan Chen and Bo Liu and Yong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.01925},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures

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