Quantum interference between two distinct vibrational trajectories induced by two pulse femtosecond excitation in molecules is shown to result in a photon echo, providing direct evidence of the cat state superposition of Gaussian vibrational wavepackets.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0005104,
title = {Molecular photon echoes as a signature of vibrational cat states},
author = {Holger F. Hofmann and Takao Fuji and Atsushi Sugita and Takayoshi Kobayashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0005104},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, including 2 figures, contribution for the Technical Digest of the conference on Nonlinear Optics, held August 2000 in Hawaii, equation (5) corrected