Chirality reversal with the carrier-envelope phase : A next generation QTAIM interpretation
Abstract
Simulated circularly-polarized 10 femtosecond laser pulses that induce a mixture of excited states are applied to ethane. Additionally, the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) angle ϕ, that quantifies the relationship between the time-varying direction of electric (E)-field and the amplitude envelope was used to manipulate the mechanical and chiral properties of ethane using Next Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (NG-QTAIM). The chirality assignments were reversed from S to R as the CEP angle ϕ was increased from ϕ = 0.0° to ϕ = 180°. A one-to-one mapping between the CEP angle ϕ and NGQTAIM trajectories was discovered.
Citation
Zhou , X , He , H , Hong , G , Peng Mi , X , Xu , T , Fruchtl , H , van Mourik , T , Paterson , M J , Kirk , S R & Jenkins , S 2024 , ' Chirality reversal with the carrier-envelope phase : A next generation QTAIM interpretation ' , Chemical Physics Letters , vol. 848 , 141391 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2024.141391
Publication
Chemical Physics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0009-2614Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: The Hunan Natural Science Foundation of China project gratefully acknowledged approval number: 2022JJ30029. The One Hundred Talents Foundation of Hunan Province is also gratefully acknowledged for the support of S.J. and S.R.K. MJP thanks the EPSRC for funding through grants EP/T021675 and EP/V006746.Collections
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