Strongly driven quantum pendulum of the OCS molecule
Quantum Physics
2014-05-14 v1 Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We demonstrate and analyze a strongly driven quantum pendulum in the angular motion of stateselected and laser aligned OCS molecules. Raman-couplings during the rising edge of a 50-picosecond laser pulse create a wave packet of pendular states, which propagates in the confining potential formed by the polarizability interaction between the molecule and the laser field. This wave-packet dynamics manifests itself as pronounced oscillations in the degree of alignment with a laser-intensity dependent period.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.6897,
title = {Strongly driven quantum pendulum of the OCS molecule},
author = {S. Trippel and T. Mullins and N. L. M. Müller and J. S. Kienitz and J. J. Omiste and H. Stapelfeldt and R. González-Férez and J. Küpper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6897},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures