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  "date_created": "2026-03-02T18:01:10.323000Z",
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    "abstract": "A light beam changes direction as it enters a liquid at an angle from another\nmedium, such as air. Should the liquid contain molecules that lack mirror\nsymmetry, then it has been predicted by Fresnel that the light beam will not\nonly change direction, but will actually split into two separate beams with a\nsmall difference in the respective angles of refraction. Here we report the\nobservation of this phenomenon. We also demonstrate that the angle of\nreflection does not equal the angle of incidence in a chiral medium. Unlike\nconventional optical rotation, which depends on the path-length through the\nsample, the reported reflection and refraction phenomena arise within a few\nwavelengths at the interface and thereby suggest a new approach to polarimetry\nthat can be used in microfluidic volumes.",
    "arxiv_id": "physics/0608120",
    "authors": [
      "Ambarish Ghosh",
      "Peer Fischer"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "physics.optics",
      "physics.chem-ph"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.173002",
    "journal_ref": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 173002 (2006).",
    "title": "Chiral molecules split light: Reflection and refraction in a chiral   liquid",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608120"
  },
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