Published April 4, 1983
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Journal article
Chiral-symmetry breaking in nonequilibrium systems
Creators
- 1. Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Description
Sensitivity of a nonequilibrium chemical system to small symmetry-breaking influences is analyzed in the context of chiral-symmetry breaking. For a hypothetical model system, with realistic kinetic constants, a reaction energy barrier difference of ΔE/kT = 10-17--10-15 is shown to be sufficient to have a strong chiral selectivity. This is in the range of the estimated energy differences between right- and left-handed molecules due to weak neutral currents
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 50
- Journal Issue
- 14
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 1023-1026
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14788965
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; MOLECULES; SYMMETRY BREAKING; SYNTHESIS; WEAK NEUTRAL CURRENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; CURRENTS; KINETICS; NEUTRAL CURRENTS; REACTION KINETICS; SYMMETRY