Resonant optical activity induced in gases by collisions with right-left nonsymmetrical molecules.
Frequency-dependent collision-induced circular dichroism and optical rotation are predicted for gases in the visible and infrared regions near resonance. For the appearance of those effects, the gas should contain right-left non-symmetrical molecules, and the pressure should correspond to the condition (l/lambda) ~ 1, where l is the free-path length. Possible right-left nonsymmetrical effects in nonlinear spectroscopy of gases at l >> lambda are mentioned.
Baranova
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Zel'dovich
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