Atomic and Molecular Clusters
The infrared spectrum of the weakly-bound C2H4-CO2 complex is investigated in the region of the nu3 fundamental band of CO2 (~2350 cm-1), using a tunable OPO laser source to probe a pulsed supersonic slit jet expansion. The spacing of the…
Spatial separation of water dimer from water monomer and larger water-clusters through the electric deflector is presented. A beam of water dimer with $93~\%$ purity and a rotational temperature of $1.5~$K was obtained. Following…
Embedded atoms or molecules in a photoexcited He nanodroplet are well-known to be ionized through inter-atomic relaxation in a Penning process. In this work, we investigate the Penning ionization of acetylene oligomers occurring from the…
In this study, a fully self-consistent method was developed to obtain the wave functions of the positron and electrons in molecules simultaneously. The wave function of a positron at room temperature , with a characteristic energy of…
We present a general variational approach for computing the laser-induced rovibrational dynamics of molecules taking into account the hyperfine effects of the nuclear quadrupole coupling. The method combines the general variational approach…
We present the first measurements of photoelectron spectra of atomic clusters embedded in superfluid helium (He) nanodroplets. Owing to the large absorption cross section of xenon (Xe) around 100 eV photon energy (4d inner-shell…
We investigate scaling rules for the ionization cross sections of multicharged ions on molecules of biological interest. The cross sections are obtained using a methodology presented in [Mendez et al. J. Phys B (2020)], which considers…
We study the system of two ultracold atoms in a three-dimensional (3D) or two-dimensional (2D) completely anisotropic harmonic trap. We derive the algebraic equation J_{3D}(E) = 1/a_{3D} (J_{2D}(E) = ln a_{2D}) for the eigen-energy E of…
The mechanism of transverse radiation viscosity for nanospheres moving in laser field is analyzed. It is demonstrated that in the process of light scattering by these particles besides the force Fs accelerating them in the direction of…
We present experimental results on the sub-Doppler Rydberg spectroscopy of potassium in a hot cell and cold atoms, performed with two counter-propagating laser beams of 405 nm and 980 nm in the inverted ladder-type system (4S1/2-5P3/2-nS1/2…
We study the process of absorption or emission of a bosonic collective excitation by a fermionic quasiparticle in a superfluid of paired fermions. From the RPA equation of motion of the bosonic excitation annihilation operator, we obtain an…
The dynamics of an x-ray-ionized two-component core-shell nanosystem is probed using doped helium (He) nanodroplets. First, a soft x-ray pump pulse selectively inner-shell ionizes the core cluster formed of heavier rare-gas atoms, causing…
We report the first experimental evidence of spontaneous electron emission from a homonuclear dimer anion through direct measurements of $\rm{Ag}_2^- \rightarrow \rm{Ag}_2 + \rm{e}^-$ decays on milliseconds and seconds time scales. This…
Due to several attractive features, the meta-generalized-gradient approximations (meta-GGAs) are considered to be the most advanced and potentially accurate semilocal exchange-correlation functionals in the rungs of the Jacob's ladder of…
High intensity XUV radiation from a free-electron (FEL) was used to create a nanoplasma inside ammonia clusters with the intent of studying the resulting electron-ion interactions and their interplay with plasma evolution. In a plasma-like…
Cooper minimum structure of high-order harmonic spectra from atoms or molecules has been extensively studied. In this paper, we demonstrate that the crystal harmonic spectra from an ultrashort mid-infrared laser pulse also exhibit the…
Versatile quantum modes emerge for plasmon describing the collective oscillations of free electrons in metallic nanoparticles when the particle sizes are greatly reduced. Rather than traditional nanoscale study, the understanding of quantum…
Attosecond pulses in the soft-X-ray (SXR) to water-window energy region offer the tools for creating and studying target specific localized inner-shell electrons or holes in materials, enable monitoring or controlling charge and energy…
We report experimental results on the diffractive imaging of three-dimensionally aligned 2,5-diiodothiophene molecules. The molecules were aligned by chirped near-infrared laser pulses, and their structure was probed at a photon energy of…
The paper proposes a new approach to studying cathodoluminescence spectra of substrate-free rare-gas clusters produced in supersonic jets exhausting into a vacuum. The approach, which takes into account the fraction of the clustered…