Quantum phases of bosonic chiral molecules in helicity lattices
Phys. Rev. A 106, 013321 – Published 28 July, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.013321
Abstract
We reveal the existence of polarizing quantum phases for the enantiomers of cold, interacting chiral molecules in an optical helicity lattice by means of an extended Bose-Hubbard model. These recently proposed lattices have sites with alternating helicity which exert a discriminatory force on chiral molecules with different handedness. In our study of the phase diagram we find that a strong dipolar repulsion between molecules results in the separation of left and right enantiomers.
