Figure 30.

Effects of light on chiral molecules through the Floquet approach to achieve stretch and spectral engineering. (a) Molecules can be made to stretch or contract by impinging light (b) modulating the spin-orbit coupling. (c) Spectrum normalized by base pair to base pair overlap strength as a function of spin state (s), transport direction (ν) and pseudospin quantum (σ) vs the normalized frequency (ξ) of impinging light. Adapted with permission under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License from ref (137). Copyright 2018 Swiss Chemical Society.