Nonadiabatic Alignment of Asymmetric Top Molecules: Field-Free Alignment of Iodobenzene

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Péronne, Emmanuel ^a   Poulsen, Mikael D ^a   Bisgaard, Christer Z ^a   Stapelfeldt, Henrik ^a   Seideman, Tamar ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASSYMETRIC TOP MOLECULES; FIELD FREE ALIGNMENT; IODOBENZENE; NONADIABATIC ALIGNMENT; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; ROTATIONAL COHERENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BENZENE;

EID: 8444227943     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.043003     Document Type: Article

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