Quantum control of electron localization in molecules driven by trains of half-cycle pulses

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Persson, Emil ^a   Burgdörfer, Joachim ^a   Gräfe, Stefanie ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; BORN-OPPENHEIMER; CONTROL MECHANISM; CONTROL SCHEMES; DINGER EQUATION; DRIVING FIELD; EFFICIENT CONTROL; ELECTRON LOCALIZATIONS; HALF CYCLE PULSE; MODEL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR COORDINATES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUANTUM CONTROL; TWO-DEGREE OF FREEDOM;

LOCOMOTIVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAILROAD CARS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 72149106201     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/105035     Document Type: Article

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