Generation of the simplest rotational wave packet in a diatomic molecule: Tracing a two-level superposition in the time domain

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Przystawik, A ^a   Kickermann, A ^a   Al Shemmary, A ^a   Dusterer S ^a   Ellis, A M ^b   Von Haeften, K ^b   Harmand, M ^a   Ramakrishna, S ^c   Redlin, H ^a   Schroedter, L ^a   Schulz, M ^a   Seideman, T ^c   Stojanovic, N ^a   Szekely, J ^c   Tavella, F ^d   Toleikis, S ^a   Laarmann, T ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; COULOMB EXPLOSION; DECOHERENCE; DIATOMIC MOLECULES; DISSIPATIVE MEDIA; FRAGMENTATION PATTERNS; INTRAMOLECULAR COUPLING; QUANTUM MECHANICAL MODEL; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL STATE; ROTATIONAL WAVES; TIME DOMAIN; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DOMAIN APPROACH; WAVE-PACKET MOTION; WEAK PERTURBATION;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

EID: 84861020742     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.052503     Document Type: Article

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