Molecular chirality and its monitoring by ultrafast x-ray pulses

JR Rouxel, S Mukamel - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and
orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at …

Ultrafast chirality: the road to efficient chiral measurements

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, O Smirnova - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Today we are witnessing the electric–dipole revolution in chiral measurements. Here we
reflect on its lessons and outcomes, such as the perspective on chiral measurements using …

Attosecond-resolved photoionization of chiral molecules

S Beaulieu, A Comby, A Clergerie, J Caillat… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Chiral light-matter interactions have been investigated for two centuries, leading to the
discovery of many chiroptical processes used for discrimination of enantiomers. Whereas …

Photoexcitation circular dichroism in chiral molecules

S Beaulieu, A Comby, D Descamps, B Fabre… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Chiral effects appear in a wide variety of natural phenomena and are of fundamental
importance in science, from particle physics to metamaterials. The standard technique of …

Ultrasensitive chiral spectroscopy by dynamical symmetry breaking in high harmonic generation

O Neufeld, D Ayuso, P Decleva, MY Ivanov… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We propose and numerically demonstrate a new chiral spectroscopy method that is based
on a universal system-independent mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking in high …

Universality of photoelectron circular dichroism in the photoionization of chiral molecules

S Beaulieu, A Ferré, R Géneaux… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoionization of chiral molecules by circularly polarized radiation gives rise to a strong
forward/backward asymmetry in the photoelectron angular distribution, referred to as …

Chiral discrimination through bielliptical high-harmonic spectroscopy

D Baykusheva, HJ Wörner - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Molecular chirality plays an essential role in most biochemical processes. The observation
and quantification of chirality-sensitive signals, however, remains extremely challenging …

Femtosecond photoelectron circular dichroism of chemical reactions

V Svoboda, NB Ram, D Baykusheva, D Zindel… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the chirality of molecular reaction pathways is essential for a broad range of
fundamental and applied sciences. However, the current ability to probe chirality on the time …

Valence shell one-photon photoelectron circular dichroism in chiral systems

L Nahon, GA Garcia, I Powis - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Photoelectron circular dichroism, or PECD, an intense forward–backward asymmetry with
respect to the light's propagation axis observed in the photoelectron angular distribution …

Photoelectron Circular Dichroism with Two Overlapping Laser Pulses of Carrier Frequencies and Linearly Polarized in Two Mutually Orthogonal Directions

PV Demekhin, AN Artemyev, A Kastner, T Baumert - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Using a model methanelike chiral system, we theoretically demonstrate a possibility to
access photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) by a single experiment with two …