SFB 1319:  Extreme light for sensing and driving molecular chirality (ELCH)

• Subject Area: Physics ; Chemistry
• Term: since 2018
• Website: Homepage
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328961117

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - PECD and PICD effects in chiral and achiral molecules (Project Head Schöffler, Markus )
• A04 - Photoelectron circular dichroism dependence on distance between probe-electron emission site and chiral center (Project Heads Ehresmann, Arno ;  Knie, Andre )
• A05 - Coherent control of circular dichroism in ion yield after excitation of chiral molecules with tailored femtosecond laser pulses (Project Heads Baumert, Thomas ;  Braun, Hendrike )
• A07 - Interplay of molecular chirality and intermolecular Coulombic decay (Project Head Hans, Andreas )
• A08 - Chiral observables and dynamics in a solvation environment, growing water molecule by water molecule (Project Head Mikosch, Jochen )
• A09 - Evolution of chiroptics under controlled conditions of nano-solvation and aggregation in superfluid helium nanodroplets (Project Head Mudrich, Marcel )
• A10 - Dichroism upon laser-induced fragmentation of small (chiral) molecules (Project Head Eckart, Sebastian )
• B01 - Circular discrimination and manipulation of transient molecules by Coulomb explosion and photoelectron diffraction (Project Heads Dörner, Reinhard ;  Schöffler, Markus )
• B02 - Enantiomer differentiation, separation, and precision studies using tailored microwave fields (Project Head Schnell, Melanie )
• B04 - Controlled enantiomeric transformation with femtosecond laser pulses (Project Head Senftleben, Arne )
• B07 - Chiral discrimination and structure determination by laser-induced electron recollision and diffraction (Project Heads Mikosch, Jochen ;  Senftleben, Arne )
• B08 - Infrared three-wave mixing for the detection of enantiomeric excess and precision spectroscopy of chiral molecules (Project Head Fuchs, Guido )
• C01 - Circular dichroism in the photoionization and decay spectra of randomly-oriented and fixed-in-space chiral molecules (Project Head Demekhin, Philipp )
• C04 - Signatures of molecular chirality in the electron cloud (Project Head Berger, Robert )
• C05 - Quantum control of chiral observables (Project Heads Koch, Christiane ;  Reich, Daniel )
• C06 - Photon-mediated chiral interactions for enantiomer detection and separation (Project Head Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi )
• C07 - Driving Forces for chiroptical properties (Project Head von Rudorff, Guido Falk )
• Z01 - Tailor-made chiral molecules (Project Heads Kargin, Denis ;  Pietschnig, Rudolf )
• Z02 - ELCH - Central management (Project Heads Baumert, Thomas ;  Ehresmann, Arno )

Completed projects

• A02 - Optical tunneling in small chiral molecules – Multicoincidence and spin polarization studies of ionization of chiral molecules in short laser pulses (Project Head Dörner, Reinhard )
• A03 - Study and control of the coupled electron-nuclear motion in chiral molecules with femtosecond resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and photoelectron spec-troscopy (Project Head Baumert, Thomas )
• A06 - Chiral Rydberg states of laser cooled atoms for studying interactions with chiral molecules (Project Head Singer, Kilian )
• B03 - Internal dynamics of chiral molecules in the light of IR- and THz-radiation (Project Head Giesen, Thomas )
• B06 - Enantiomer separation and matter-wave interferometry using discriminatory optical forces (Project Head Wang, Daqing )
• C02 - Photoionization dynamics in chiral molecules: Understanding electron correlation and maximizing chiral response (Project Heads Koch, Christiane ;  Reich, Daniel )
• C03 - Quantum control for enantiomer separation and purification (Project Head Koch, Christiane )
• T01 - Transferring ELCH activities to foster the understanding of science in schools (Project Heads Di Fuccia, David-Samuel ;  Wodzinski, Rita )

• Applicant Institution: Universität Kassel
• Participating University: Freie Universität Berlin; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Participating Institution: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Thomas Baumert, until 3/2023; Professor Dr. Arno Ehresmann, since 3/2023