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 …

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 …

Two-dimensional charged particle image inversion using a polar basis function expansion

GA Garcia, L Nahon, I Powis - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Since its introduction in the late 1980s, 1 the technique of photofragment imaging has been
applied to numerous studies of fundamental dynamical processes: bimolecular reactions …

Circular dichroism in the photoelectron angular distributions of camphor and fenchone from multiphoton ionization with femtosecond laser pulses

C Lux, M Wollenhaupt, T Bolze, Q Liang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral recognition in the gas phase using light is a challenge because of the low particle
densities involved. However, such collision free conditions offer great promise for highly …

[HTML][HTML] Attosecond circular-dichroism chronoscopy of electron vortices

M Han, JB Ji, T Balčiūnas, K Ueda, HJ Wörner - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Circular dichroism (CD) describes the different responses of a chiral object to circularly
polarized light of opposite handedness and serves as the basis of most chirality-sensitive …

Atomic partial wave meter by attosecond coincidence metrology

W Jiang, GSJ Armstrong, J Tong, Y Xu, Z Zuo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Attosecond chronoscopy is central to the understanding of ultrafast electron dynamics in
matter from gas to the condensed phase with attosecond temporal resolution. It has …

Detecting chirality in molecules by imaging photoelectron circular dichroism

MHM Janssen, I Powis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Perspective we discuss photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD), a relatively novel
technique that can detect chiral molecules with high sensitivity. PECD has an enantiomeric …

Imaging photoelectron circular dichroism of chiral molecules by femtosecond multiphoton coincidence detection

CS Lehmann, NB Ram, I Powis… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Here, we provide a detailed account of novel experiments employing electron-ion
coincidence imaging to discriminate chiral molecules. The full three-dimensional angular …

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 …

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 …