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@ARTICLE{Tsitsonis:646073,
      author       = {Tsitsonis, Dimitrios and Kircher, Max and Novikovskiy, N.
                      M. and Trinter, Florian and Williams, Joshua and Fehre,
                      Kilian and Kaiser, Leon and Eckart, Sebastian and Kreuz, O.
                      and Senftleben, Arne and Demekhin, Philipp and Berger, R.
                      and Jahnke, Till and Schoeffler, Markus and Doerner,
                      Reinhard},
      title        = {{P}robing {I}nstantaneous {S}ingle-{M}olecule {C}hirality
                      in the {P}lanar {G}round {S}tate of {F}ormic {A}cid},
      journal      = {Physical review letters},
      volume       = {136},
      number       = {4},
      issn         = {0031-9007},
      address      = {College Park, Md.},
      publisher    = {APS},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2026-00713},
      pages        = {043001},
      year         = {2026},
      note         = {H-20010092},
      abstract     = {We experimentally demonstrate that individual molecules of
                      formic acid are chiral even when they are in the vibronic
                      ground state, which has a planar equilibrium structure. We
                      ionize the C 1⁢𝑠 shell of the molecule and record the
                      photoelectron in coincidence with positively charged
                      fragments. This provides two consecutive measurements of the
                      structure of one molecule, the first by photoelectron
                      diffraction imaging and the second by Coulomb explosion
                      imaging. We find that both measurements show the same
                      handedness of the specific molecule. The phenomenon of being
                      achiral on average but chiral at the level of individual
                      molecules is general to prochiral molecules and is a
                      consequence of the three-dimensional zero-point
                      delocalization of the nuclei in the vibrational ground
                      state.},
      cin          = {DOOR ; HAS-User},
      ddc          = {530},
      cid          = {I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731},
      pnm          = {6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3) / DFG project
                      G:(GEPRIS)328961117 - SFB 1319: Extremes Licht zur Analyse
                      und Kontrolle molekularer Chiralität (ELCH) (328961117) /
                      DFG project G:(GEPRIS)509471550 - Dynamik
                      photoionisations-induzierter Prozesse in laser-präparierten
                      Molekülen in der Gasphase und der wässrigen Phase
                      (509471550)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G3 / G:(GEPRIS)328961117 /
                      G:(GEPRIS)509471550},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-H253)P-P04-20150101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      doi          = {10.1103/bvqj-pm3n},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/646073},
}