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February 2, 2026Advanced Materials0 citationsOpen Access

High‐Throughput Chirality Identification of Chiral Fermion Enantiomers by Ultrafast Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy

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WLWei LuHWH. Holly WangDLDelang Liang

Key Points

  • The aim is to develop a high-throughput method for identifying chirality in chiral fermionic materials, specifically topological chiral semimetals.
  • Utilized terahertz emission from ultrafast excited circular photogalvanic effects.
  • Demonstrated the method using the chiral semimetal RhSn.
  • Compared results with single-crystal X-ray diffraction for verification.
  • Terahertz electric fields were reversed for opposite enantiomers of the material.
  • THz emission provides a contactless and nondestructive identification of chirality.
  • This method enhances the ability to study and manipulate the chirality degree of freedom.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Topological chiral semimetals possess nondegenerate chiral fermions dominated by large Chern numbers, making them an ideal material platform for quantum control of chirality degree of freedom. However, high‐throughput chirality identification of a chiral enantiomer, which is the first and foremost basic characterization, is still lacking. In this work, we demonstrate that terahertz (THz) emission from ultrafast excited circular photogalvanic effects can be used to effectively identify the chirality of topological chiral semimetal. As demonstrated for the topological chiral semimetal RhSn, the emitted THz electric fields excited by certain circularly polarized ultrafast light pulses are reversed for the opposite enantiomer. By comparing the single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction results, we show that THz emission serves as a high‐throughput, contactless, and nondestructive method for identifying the chirality of topological chiral semimetals. Our findings will facilitate and thus promote the study of topological chiral semimetals and further advance the quantum manipulation of the chirality degree of freedom in topological materials.

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Lu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980ff19c1c9540dea811ccehttps://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202505100
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