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View SchemaTwo-Step Enantio-selective Optical Switch
| Authors | Petr Král, Ioannis Thanopulos, Moshe Shapiro, Doron Cohen |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0211178 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211178 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.033001 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. (January 2003) |
Abstract
We present an optical "enantio-selective switch", that, in two steps, turns a ("racemic") mixture of left-handed and right-handed chiral molecules into the enantiomerically pure state of interest. The optical switch is composed of an "enantio-discriminator" and an "enantio-converter" acting in tandem. The method is robust, insensitive to decay processes, and does not require molecular preorientation. We demonstrate the method on the purification of a racemate of (transiently chiral) D$_2$S$_2$ molecules, performed on the nanosecond timescale.
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