2010/09/29 by Alexei M. Frolov, Frolov, Alexei M., David M. Wardlaw +1
Chemistry · Computer Science · #Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus) #FOS: Physical sciences #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Various Chemistry Research Topics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.6016
openalex publication_date 2010/09/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The optical activity tensor (OAT) is explicitly derived. It is shown that to evaluate a large number of effects related to optical activity of some atomic/molecular system at arbitrary frequency ω of the incident light, one needs to know only four optical activity tensors which have twelve irreducible (tensor) components. An additional amplification factor contains one 3 × 3 tensor of light scattering with three irreducible components. The explicit dependence of all irreducible components of OAT upon ω and some molecular parameters is derived and discussed. We apply OAT to explain the dispersion of optical rotation in dilute solutions of organic molecules. This study opens a new avenue in application of methods of modern Quantum Electrodynamics to the optical activity.