Exploiting Lattice Potentials for Sorting Chiral Particles

David Speer, Ralf Eichhorn, and Peter Reimann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 090602 – Published 24 August 2010

Abstract

Several ways are demonstrated of how periodic potentials can be exploited for sorting molecules or other small objects which only differ by their chirality. With the help of a static bias force, the two chiral partners can be made to move along orthogonal directions. Time-periodic external forces even lead to motion into exactly opposite directions.

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  • Received 13 April 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.090602

© 2010 The American Physical Society

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David Speer1, Ralf Eichhorn2, and Peter Reimann1

  • 1Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
  • 2NORDITA, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden

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Vol. 105, Iss. 9 — 27 August 2010

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