Enantio-specific state transfer of chiral molecules through enantio-selective shortcut-to-adiabaticity paths

TL;DR

This paper proposes a rapid, enantio-specific state transfer method for chiral molecules using shortcut-to-adiabaticity paths, enabling simultaneous and selective state evolution of enantiomers.

Contribution

It introduces an invariant-based inverse engineering approach for fast, enantio-selective population transfer in cyclic three-level systems of chiral molecules.

Findings

Achieves fast enantio-specific state transfer using shortcut-to-adiabaticity.

Enables simultaneous evolution of enantiomers to different final states.

Demonstrates control over chiral molecule state transfer processes.

Abstract

An interesting method of fast enantio-specific state transfer is proposed for cyclic three-level systems of chiral molecules. We show that the fast population transfer via shortcut to adiabaticity can be accomplished for the cyclic three-level system of a general (chiral) molecule with invariant-based inverse engineering of the coupling strengths. By choosing appropriate parameters, the two enantiomers, which are initially prepared in their ground states in the three-level systems, will evolve respectively along their enantio-selective shortcut-to-adiabaticity paths to different-energy final states simultaneously, namely achieving the fast enantio-specific state transfer.