Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 090602 (2010) [4 pages]Exploiting Lattice Potentials for Sorting Chiral ParticlesReceived 13 April 2010; published 24 August 2010 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. © 2010 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.090602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.090602
PACS:
05.40.-a, 05.45.-a, 05.60.-k
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