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.
- Received 13 April 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.090602
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