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@MISC{Zak:457238,
      author       = {Zak, Emil},
      title        = {{C}hiral molecules detection - preface to a special issue
                      in '{S}ymmetry' {J}ournal ({MDPI} publisher)},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2021-01921},
      year         = {2021},
      note         = {This is a short description for a planned special issue
                      'chiral molecules detection' in the Symmetry Journal (MDPI).
                      The leaflet is going to be visible on the publisher's
                      website. I was invited to guest edit the special issue.},
      abstract     = {Chirality is prevalent in the natural environment. Systems
                      of biological significance more often than not exist in two
                      enantiomeric (mirror-image) forms, which are
                      non-superimposableby rotations and translations in space.
                      Dating back to Pasteur, there has been a long and formidable
                      history of methods for determining the absolute handedness
                      of chemicals and the enantiomeric excess in mixtures of
                      chiral compounds.Several modernly expanded techniques for
                      studying chirality had already given a paramount impact on
                      chemistry, biology and medicine. Circular dichroism
                      spectroscopy, microwave three-wave mixing, Coulomb explosion
                      especially combined with COLTRIMS (cold target recoil ion
                      momentum spectroscopy), or modern table-top experiments
                      utilizing the photo-electron circular dichroism, are only
                      few out of many methods used to probe chirality in the gas
                      phase molecules.Rapid development of the femtosecond and
                      attosecond laser technology allowed to probe even deeper
                      into the realm where the molecular chirality emerges - on
                      the time-scale of the electronic motions. We therefore may
                      at least consider pondering on the non-static nature of
                      chirality, studying which has recently become a laboratory
                      reality. This exciting time, in which the experiment
                      tentatively reaches into the molecular frame of chiral
                      molecules at (sub-)femtosecond and (sub-)angstroms
                      resolution, must bring new insights and discoveries.Past two
                      decades have been a witness to a pursuit in theoretical
                      methods as well, which parallel to the experiment, aim at
                      underpinning the nature of chirality by proposing ever new
                      and more sensitive probes of chirality. Some of the
                      theoretical methods present a significant computational
                      challenge, which triggers algorithmic developments in
                      quantum calculations.We welcome theoretical as well as
                      experimental contributions covering concepts and techniques
                      not only for measuring the enantiomeric excess in mixtures
                      of chiral molecules, but also approaches to discriminate
                      chiral species, separate them or to unravel the role of the
                      nuclear and electronic motion in interacting chiral
                      systems.},
      cin          = {FS-CFEL-1 / FS-CFEL-CMI},
      cid          = {I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-1-20120731 /
                      I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-CMI-20220405},
      pnm          = {631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control
                      (POF4-631)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-631},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)4},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/457238},
}