Emile Hoskinson Department of Physics & Astronomy University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. The interactions of polarized light with an optically active (chiral), multiply scattering medium are investigated using a relatively simple experimental system incorporating polarization modulation and synchronous detection techniques. The pola...

In an optically active liquid the diffraction angle depends on the circular polarization state of the incident light beam. We report the observation of circular differential diffraction in an isotropic chiral medium, and we demonstrate that double diffraction is an alternate means to determine the handedness (enantiomeric excess) of a solution.

Negative refraction is currently achieved by driving the magnetic permeability and electrical permittivity simultaneously negative. It is studied an alternative route to negative refraction without manipulating these parameters ( and  ) on a chiral magnetized plasma. By adding chirality to the plasma, we obtain windows where the refraction is negative. The size of these windows depends on par...

In this paper, we study the reconstruction of the chirality admittance of periodic chiral structures. The media is homogeneous and the structure is periodic in one direction and invariant in another direction. The electromagnetic fields inside the chiral medium are governed by Maxwell equations together with the Drude-Born-Fedorov equations. We simplify the problem to a two-dimensional inverse ...

We study the D → σπ, D → ρπ, B− → σπ−, B− → ρ0π− and B̄ → ρ±π∓ decays in a valence quark triangle model, incorporating chiral symmetries. We find a good agreement with recent experimental data for D → σπ and for D → ρπ. We point out that a long-distance contribution due to the axial vector a1 meson pole, calculated by using chiral symmetry, can be relevant to explain D → ρπ and for lowering the ...

synthesis of some new monocyclic β-lactams containing a quaternary carbon center via a [2+2]cycloaddition reaction is described. the reaction of achiral diphenyl ketene with chiral aldimines derivedfrom chiral 2, 3, 4, 6-tetra-o-acetyl-β-d-galactopyranosylamine, 2, 3, 4, 6-tetra-o-acetyl-β-dglucopyranosylamine and different benzaldehydes resulted in the formation of β-lactams as singlediastereo...