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McDonald M, Majewska I, Lee CH, Kondov SS, McGuyer BH, Moszynski R, Zelevinsky T. Control of Ultracold Photodissociation with Magnetic Fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:033201. [PMID: 29400515 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.033201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Photodissociation of a molecule produces a spatial distribution of photofragments determined by the molecular structure and the characteristics of the dissociating light. Performing this basic reaction at ultracold temperatures allows its quantum mechanical features to dominate. In this regime, weak applied fields can be used to control the reaction. Here, we photodissociate ultracold diatomic strontium in magnetic fields below 10 G and observe striking changes in photofragment angular distributions. The observations are in excellent agreement with a multichannel quantum chemistry model that includes nonadiabatic effects and predicts strong mixing of partial waves in the photofragment energy continuum. The experiment is enabled by precise quantum-state control of the molecules.
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- M McDonald
- Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-5255, USA
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- Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-5255, USA
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- Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-5255, USA
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- Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-5255, USA
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- Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-5255, USA
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Rakitzis TP. Photofragment angular momentum distributions in the molecular frame. III. Coherent effects in the photodissociation of polyatomic molecules with circularly polarized light. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:204301. [PMID: 21133438 DOI: 10.1063/1.3506578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We extend the a(q) (k)(s) polarization parameter model [T. P. Rakitzis and A. J. Alexander, J. Chem. Phys. 132, 224310 (2010)] to describe the components of the product angular momentum polarization that arise from the one-photon photodissociation of asymmetric top molecules with circularly polarized photolysis light, and provide a general equation for fitting experimental signals. We show that the only polarization parameters that depend on the helicity of the circularly polarized photolysis light are the A(0) (k) and Re[A(1) (k)] (with odd k) and the Im[A(1) (k)] (with even k); in addition, for the unique recoil destination (URD) approximation [for which the photofragment recoil v arises from a unique parent molecule geometry], we show that these parameters arise only as a result the interference between at least two dissociative electronic states. Furthermore, we show that in the breakdown of the URD approximation (for which the photofragment recoil v arises from a distribution of parent molecule geometries), these parameters can also arise for dissociation via a single dissociative electronic state. In both cases, the A(0) (k) and Re[A(1) (k)] parameters (with odd k) are proportional to cosΔφ, and the Im[A(1) (k)] parameters (with even k) are proportional to sinΔφ, where Δφ is the phase shift (or average phase shift) between the interfering paths so that Δφ can be determined directly from the A(q) (k), or from ratios of these A(q) (k) parameters. Therefore, the determination of these A(q) (k) parameters with circularly polarized photolysis light allows the unambiguous measurement of coherent effects in polyatomic-molecule photodissociation.
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- T Peter Rakitzis
- Department of Physics, University of Crete, and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 71110 Heraklion-Crete, Greece.
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Elkharrat C, Picard YJ, Billaud P, Cornaggia C, Garzella D, Perdrix M, Houver JC, Lucchese RR, Dowek D. Ion Pair Formation in Multiphoton Excitation of NO2 Using Linearly and Circularly Polarized Femtosecond Light Pulses: Kinetic Energy Distribution and Fragment Recoil Anisotropy. J Phys Chem A 2010; 114:9902-18. [DOI: 10.1021/jp103672h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- C. Elkharrat
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, UMR8214 Univ Paris-Sud et CNRS, Bat. 350, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Service Photons Atomes & Molécules, CEA IRAMIS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Saclay, Bat. 522, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255
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Chichinin AI, Shternin PS, Gödecke N, Kauczok S, Maul C, Vasyutinskii OS, Gericke KH. Intermediate state polarization in multiphoton ionization of HCl. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:34310. [PMID: 16863353 DOI: 10.1063/1.2218336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The paper presents the detailed theoretical description of the intermediate state polarization and photofragment angular distribution in resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of molecules and the experimental investigation of these effects in the E(1)Sigma(+) and V(1)Sigma(+) states of HCl populated by two-photon transitions. It is shown that the intermediate state polarization can be characterized by the universal parameter b which is in general a complex number containing information about the symmetry of the two-photon excitation and possible phase shifts. The photofragment angular distribution produced by one- or multiphoton excitation of the polarized intermediate state is presented as a product of the intermediate state axis spatial distribution and the angular distribution of the photofragments from an unpolarized intermediate state. Experiments have been carried out by two complementary methods: REMPI absorption spectroscopy of rotationally resolved (E,v'=0<--X,v"=0) and (V,v'=12<--X,v"=0) transitions and REMPI via the Q(0) and Q(1) rotational transitions followed by three-dimensional ion imaging detection. The values of the parameter b determined from experiment manifest the mostly perpendicular nature of the initial two-photon transition. The experimentally obtained H(+) -ion fragment angular distributions produced via the Q(1) rotational transition show good agreement with theoretical prediction.
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- A I Chichinin
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Krems RV, Groenenboom GC, Dalgarno A. Electronic Interaction Anisotropy between Atoms in Arbitrary Angular Momentum States. J Phys Chem A 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0488416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- R. V. Krems
- Harvard−MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Harvard University and Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard−Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, NSRIM, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard−Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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