Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a random driven chemical system - Nature.com

“A hallmark of living systems is their homochirality, the selection of specific mirror symmetry in their molecules. Here, the authors show that chiral symmetry can be spontaneously broken in complex, random chemical systems via exploitation of environmental e…

Model: a complex chiral chemical system We construct the chemical system using a framework recently introduced in ref. 23, where achiral species {Ai} react under the influence of external environmen… [+15161 chars]

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