Enantiomeric excess determination based on nonreciprocal transition induced spectral line elimination

Abstract

The spontaneous emission spectrum of a multi-level atom or molecule with nonreciprocal transition is investigated. It is shown that the nonreciprocal transition can lead to the elimination of a spectral line in the spontaneous emission spectrum. As an application, we show that nonreciprocal transition arises from the phase-related driving fields in chiral molecules with cyclic three-level transitions, and the elimination of a spectral line induced by nonreciprocal transition provides us a method to determine the enantiomeric excess for the chiral molecules without requiring the enantio-pure samples.

8 pages, 6 figures