Quantum control via the dynamic Stark effect: Application to switched rotational wave packets and molecular axis alignment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Sussman, Benjamin J ^a,b   Underwood, Jonathan G ^c   Lausten, R ^a,b   Ivanov, Misha Yu ^a   Stolow, Albert ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

DYNAMIC STARK EFFECT; GAUSSIAN OPTICAL PULSES; INFRARED LASER FIELDS; PLASMA SHUTTERING TECHNIQUE; QUANTUM CONTROL SCHEMES; RAMAN COUPLED MATTER STATES; RESONANT TRANSITIONS; SWITCHED ROTATIONAL WAVE PACKETS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33646417943     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.053403     Document Type: Article

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