Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface
Kranabetter L, Kristensen HH, Ghazaryan A, Schouder CA, Chatterley AS, Janssen P, Jensen F, Zillich RE, Lemeshko M, Stapelfeldt H. 2023. Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface. Physical Review Letters. 131(5), 053201.
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Kranabetter, Lorenz;
Kristensen, Henrik H.;
Ghazaryan, AregISTA 
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Schouder, Constant A.;
Chatterley, Adam S.;
Janssen, Paul;
Jensen, Frank;
Zillich, Robert E.;
Lemeshko, MikhailISTA ;
Stapelfeldt, Henrik
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Schouder, Constant A.;
Chatterley, Adam S.;
Janssen, Paul;
Jensen, Frank;
Zillich, Robert E.;
Lemeshko, MikhailISTA ;
Stapelfeldt, HenrikDepartment
Abstract
We demonstrate that a sodium dimer, Na2(13Σ+u), residing on the surface of a helium nanodroplet, can be set into rotation by a nonresonant 1.0 ps infrared laser pulse. The time-dependent degree of alignment measured, exhibits a periodic, gradually decreasing structure that deviates qualitatively from that expected for gas-phase dimers. Comparison to alignment dynamics calculated from the time-dependent rotational Schrödinger equation shows that the deviation is due to the alignment dependent interaction between the dimer and the droplet surface. This interaction confines the dimer to the tangential plane of the droplet surface at the point where it resides and is the reason that the observed alignment dynamics is also well described by a 2D quantum rotor model.
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2023-08-04
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
Acknowledgement
H. S. acknowledges support from The Villum Foundation through a Villum Investigator Grant No. 25886. M. L. acknowledges support by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant No. 801770 (ANGULON). F. J. and R. E. Z. acknowledge support from the Centre for Scientific Computing, Aarhus and the JKU scientific computing administration, Linz, respectively.
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131
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5
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053201
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Kranabetter L, Kristensen HH, Ghazaryan A, et al. Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface. Physical Review Letters. 2023;131(5). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.053201
Kranabetter, L., Kristensen, H. H., Ghazaryan, A., Schouder, C. A., Chatterley, A. S., Janssen, P., … Stapelfeldt, H. (2023). Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface. Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.053201
Kranabetter, Lorenz, Henrik H. Kristensen, Areg Ghazaryan, Constant A. Schouder, Adam S. Chatterley, Paul Janssen, Frank Jensen, Robert E. Zillich, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Henrik Stapelfeldt. “Nonadiabatic Laser-Induced Alignment Dynamics of Molecules on a Surface.” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.053201.
L. Kranabetter et al., “Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, no. 5. American Physical Society, 2023.
Kranabetter L, Kristensen HH, Ghazaryan A, Schouder CA, Chatterley AS, Janssen P, Jensen F, Zillich RE, Lemeshko M, Stapelfeldt H. 2023. Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of molecules on a surface. Physical Review Letters. 131(5), 053201.
Kranabetter, Lorenz, et al. “Nonadiabatic Laser-Induced Alignment Dynamics of Molecules on a Surface.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, no. 5, 053201, American Physical Society, 2023, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.053201.
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