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 …

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy: the continuing evolution of a mature technique

MS Schuurman, V Blanchet - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) has become one of the most
widespread techniques for probing nonadiabatic dynamics in the excited electronic states of …

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 …

Attosecond-resolved non-dipole photoionization dynamics

J Liang, M Han, Y Liao, J Ji, CS Leung, WC Jiang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Light–matter interactions are usually described within the electric-dipole approximation,
where the magnetic-field component and the spatial variation of the light electric field over …

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 …

Capturing electron-driven chiral dynamics in UV-excited molecules

V Wanie, E Bloch, EP Månsson, L Colaizzi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Chiral molecules, used in applications such as enantioselective photocatalysis, circularly
polarized light detection and emission and molecular switches,, exist in two geometrical …

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 …

Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

Femtosecond polarization sha** of free-electron laser pulses

G Perosa, J Wätzel, D Garzella, E Allaria… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the generation of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser (FEL) pulses
with time-dependent polarization. To achieve polarization modulation on a femtosecond …

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 …