TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yachmenev, Andrey
AU  - Onvlee, Jolijn
AU  - Zak, Emil
AU  - Owens, Alec
AU  - Küpper, Jochen
TI  - Field-induced diastereomers for chiral separation
JO  - Physical review letters
VL  - 123
IS  - 24
SN  - 0031-9007
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - PUBDB-2019-03812
M1  - arXiv:1905.07166
SP  - 243202
PY  - 2019
AB  - A novel approach for the state-specific enantiomeric enrichment and the spatial separation ofenantiomers is presented. Our scheme utilizes techniques from strong-field laser physics, specificallyan optical centrifuge in conjunction with a static electric field, to create a chiral field with definedhandedness. Molecular enantiomers experience unique rotational excitation dynamics and thiscan be exploited to spatially separate the enantiomers using electrostatic deflection. Notably, therotational-state-specific enantiomeric enhancement and its handedness is fully controllable. Toexplain these effects, the conceptual framework of field-induced diastereomers of a chiral molecule isintroduced and computationally demonstrated through robust quantum-mechanical simulations onthe prototypical chiral molecule propylene oxide (C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>6</sub>O), for which ensembles with an enantiomericexcess of up to 30 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31922822
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000501809100003
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243202
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/426632
ER  -