AACS Omega29d ago

Full Symmetry-Breaking of Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics for Low-Attosecond Resolution of Electronic Chirality

Attosecond science is an emerging topic, where chirality plays a central role. Here, we demonstrate subjecting iodoacetylene, a geometrically achiral molecule, to a pair of simulated nonionizing ultrafast circularly polarized laser pulses at the highest time resolution to date, by 2 orders of magnitude (3.87 attoseconds), of the continuously valued S and R electronic chirality assignments. We partner with the only vector-based quantum chemical physics theory enabling full symmetry-breaking with