| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Coherent creation and annihilation of rotational wave packets in incoherent ensembles (PDF, 383 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033403 |
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| Author | Search for: Lee, Kevin F.1; Search for: Shapiro, E. A.1; Search for: Villeneuve, D. M.1; Search for: Corkum, P. B.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Subject | molecule-photon collisions; nitrogen; photodissociation; rotational states |
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| Abstract | Laser pulses can create rotational wave packets in molecules that periodically revive as field-free aligned distributions. These rotational wave packets can be approximately annihilated by applying another laser pulse during a half revival, an effect corresponding to quantum antiresonance in chaotic kicked rotor studies. We theoretically explore causes of deviation from perfect annihilation. We experimentally demonstrate rotational wave packet annihilation in nitrogen gas, measuring the evolution of alignment by Coulomb explosion imaging. As a test, we apply the pulse pair to an existing rotational wave packet and observe the restoration of the original revival structure after the zero-effect pulse pair. |
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| Publication date | 2006-03-02 |
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| Publisher | American Physical Society |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 12338160 |
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| Record identifier | cb3beb62-5962-40c1-afd8-4fd5e9259c76 |
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| Record created | 2009-09-10 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-22 |
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