On the role of true and false chirality in producing parity-violating energy differences

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作者：

Martinez-Gil, Daniel ^{[1
,2
]}

Bargueno, Pedro ^{[2
]}

Miret-Artes, Salvador ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Fdn Humanismo & Ciencia, Guzman El Bueno 66, Madrid 28015, Spain

[2] Univ Alicante, Dept Fis Aplicada, Campus San Vicente Raspeig, Alicante 03690, Spain

[3] CSIC, Inst Fis Fundamental, Serrano123, Madrid 28006, Spain

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES | 2025年 / 481卷 / 2307期

关键词：

homochirality; parity violation; quantum field theory; RACEMIC AMINO-ACIDS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; ORIGIN; MOLECULES; ENANTIOMERS;

D O I：

10.1098/rspa.2023.0938

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

In this work, we tackle the problem of showing which type of influences can lift the degeneracy between truly and falsely chiral systems, showing that only when both systems and influences are both truly (falsely) chiral, a parity violating energy difference between left-handed (L) and right-handed (R) systems can be produced. In particular, after considering the enantiomers of a chiral molecule as paradigmatic truly chiral systems, we rigorously show, under a quantum field theoretical approach, that only a truly chiral influence such as the Z0-mediated electroweak interaction can lift the degeneracy between enantiomers. Indeed, we explicitly show that a falsely chiral influence, such as an axion-mediated interaction in chiral molecules, cannot lift the aforementioned degeneracy. These results extend Barron's seminal ideas (L. D. Barron, True and false chirality and parity violation, Chem. Phys. Lett. 123, 423 (1986). (doi:10.1016/0009-2614(86)80035-5)) to a quantum-field-theory- (QFT)-based approach.

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