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 …

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 …

Synthetic chiral light for efficient control of chiral light–matter interaction

D Ayuso, O Neufeld, AF Ordonez, P Decleva… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Light is a very powerful and precise tool, allowing us to control, shape, and create new
phases of matter. In such tasks, the magnetic component of a light wave is essential in …

Probing molecular chirality on a sub-femtosecond timescale

R Cireasa, AE Boguslavskiy, B Pons, MCH Wong… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Chiral molecules that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, known as
enantiomers, have identical chemical and physical properties unless they interact with …

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 …

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 …

Enantio-sensitive unidirectional light bending

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, P Decleva, M Ivanov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Structured light, which exhibits nontrivial intensity, phase, and polarization patterns in space,
has key applications ranging from imaging and 3D micromanipulation to classical and …

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 …

Vibrationally induced inversion of photoelectron forward-backward asymmetry in chiral molecule photoionization by circularly polarized light

GA Garcia, L Nahon, S Daly, I Powis - Nature Communications, 2013 - nature.com
Electron–nuclei coupling accompanying excitation and relaxation processes is a fascinating
phenomenon in molecular dynamics. A striking and unexpected example of such coupling is …

Determination of accurate electron chiral asymmetries in fenchone and camphor in the VUV range: sensitivity to isomerism and enantiomeric purity

L Nahon, L Nag, GA Garcia, I Myrgorodska… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) manifests itself as an intense forward/backward
asymmetry in the angular distribution of photoelectrons produced from randomly-oriented …