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Analysis of parity violation in chiral molecules.

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In order to guide the experimental search for parity violation in molecular systems, in part motivated by the possible link to biomolecular homochirality, we present a detailed analysis in a relativistic framework of the mechanism behind the tiny energy difference between enantiomers induced by the weak force. A decomposition of the molecular expectation value into atomic contributions reveals that the effect can be thought of as arising from a specific mixing of valence s(1/2) and p(1/2) orbitals on a single center induced by a chiral molecular field. The intra-atomic nature of the effect is further illustrated by visualization of the electron chirality density and suggests that a simple model for parity violation in molecules may be constructed by combining pre-calculated atomic quantities with simple bonding models. A 2-component relativistic computational procedure is proposed which bridges the relativistic and non-relativistic approaches to the calculation of parity violation in chiral molecules and allows us to explore the single-center theorem in a variational setting.
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hal-00760960 , version 1 (04-11-2021)

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Radovan Bast, Anton Koers, André Severo Pereira Gomes, Miroslav Iliaš, Lucas Visscher, et al.. Analysis of parity violation in chiral molecules.. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13 (3), pp.864-876. ⟨10.1039/c0cp01483d⟩. ⟨hal-00760960⟩
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