Colloquium : Homochirality: Symmetry breaking in systems driven far from equilibrium

In 1848, Louis Pasteur discovered that certain molecules can rotate the polarization of light either clockwise or anticlockwise, defining their chirality. Some biological molecules, such as amino acids and sugars, are homochiral, that is, they rotate their polarization in only one direction. Althoug...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Reviews of modern physics 2013-04, Vol.85 (2), p.603-621
Hauptverfasser:	Saito, Yukio, Hyuga, Hiroyuki
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Amplification Biomolecules Broken symmetry Chirality Nonlinearity Polarization Recycling Sodium
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