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Nötzold M, Wild R, Lochmann C, Rahim T, Melath SP, Dulitz K, Mant B, Franz J, Gianturco FA, Wester R. Vibrational Quenching of Optically Pumped Carbon Dimer Anions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:183002. [PMID: 37977634 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.183002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Abstract
Careful control of quantum states is a gateway to research in many areas of science such as quantum information, quantum-controlled chemistry, and astrophysical processes. Precise optical control of molecular ions remains a challenge due to the scarcity of suitable level schemes, and direct laser cooling has not yet been achieved for either positive or negative molecular ions. Using a cryogenic wire trap, we show how the internal quantum states of C_{2}^{-} anions can be manipulated using optical pumping and inelastic quenching collisions with H_{2} gas. We obtained optical pumping efficiencies of about 96% into the first vibrational level of C_{2}^{-} and determined the absolute inelastic rate coefficient from v=1 to 0 to be k_{q}=(3.2±0.2_{stat}±1.3_{sys})×10^{-13} cm^{3}/s at 20(3) K, over 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the capture limit. Reduced-dimensional quantum scattering calculations yield a small rate coefficient as well, but significantly larger than the experimental value. Using optical pumping and inelastic collisions, we also realized fluorescence imaging of negative molecular ions. Our work demonstrates high control of a cold ensemble of C_{2}^{-}, providing a solid foundation for future work on laser cooling of molecular ions.
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- Markus Nötzold
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics and Advanced Materials Center, Gdańsk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Yang B, Balakrishnan N, Zhang P, Wang X, Bowman JM, Forrey RC, Stancil PC. Full-dimensional quantum dynamics of CO in collision with H2. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:034308. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4958951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Benhui Yang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Physics, Penn State University, Berks Campus, Reading, Pennsylvania 19610, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Yang B, Zhang P, Wang X, Stancil P, Bowman J, Balakrishnan N, Forrey R. Quantum dynamics of CO–H2 in full dimensionality. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6629. [PMID: 25800802 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Li H, Zhang XL, Le Roy RJ, Roy PN. Analytic Morse/long-range potential energy surfaces and predicted infrared spectra for CO–H2 dimer and frequency shifts of CO in (para-H2)N N = 1–20 clusters. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:164315. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4826595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Yang B, Stancil PC, Balakrishnan N, Forrey RC. Quenching of rotationally excited CO by collisions with H2. J Chem Phys 2006; 124:104304. [PMID: 16542076 DOI: 10.1063/1.2178299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Quantum close-coupling and coupled-states approximation scattering calculations of rotational energy transfer in CO due to collisions with H2 are presented for collision energies between 10(-6) and 15,000 cm(-1) using the H2-CO interaction potentials of Jankowski and Szalewicz [J. Chem. Phys. 123, 104301 (2005); 108, 3554 (1998)]. State-to-state cross sections and rate coefficients are reported for the quenching of CO initially in rotational levels j2 = 1-3 by collisions with both para- and ortho-H2. Comparison with the available theoretical and experimental results shows good agreement, but some discrepancies with previous calculations using the earlier potential remain. Interestingly, elastic and inelastic cross sections for the quenching of CO (j2 = 1) by para-H2 reveal significant differences at low collision energies. The differences in the well depths of the van der Waals interactions of the two potential surfaces lead to different resonance structures in the cross sections. In particular, the presence of a near-zero-energy resonance for the earlier potential which has a deeper van der Waals well yields elastic and inelastic cross sections that are about a factor of 5 larger than that for the newer potential at collision energies lower than 10(-3) cm(-1).
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- Benhui Yang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2451, USA.
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Jankowski P, Szalewicz K. A new ab initio interaction energy surface and high-resolution spectra of the H2–CO van der Waals complex. J Chem Phys 2005; 123:104301. [PMID: 16178591 DOI: 10.1063/1.2008216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A new four-dimensional intermolecular potential-energy surface for the H(2)-CO complex is presented. The ab initio points have been computed on a five-dimensional grid including the dependence on the H-H separation (the C-O separation was fixed). The surface has then been obtained by averaging over the intramolecular vibration of H(2). The coupled-cluster supermolecular method with single, double, and noniterative triple excitations has been used to calculate the interaction energy. The correlation part of the interaction energy has been obtained from extrapolations based on calculations in a series of basis sets. An analytical fit of the ab initio potential-energy surface has the global minimum of -93.049 cm(-1) at the intermolecular separation of 7.92 bohr for the linear geometry with the C atom pointing toward the H(2) molecule. For the other linear geometry, with the O atom pointing toward H(2), the local minimum of -72.741 cm(-1) has been found for the intermolecular separation of 7.17 bohr. The potential has been used to calculate the rovibrational energy levels of the para-H(2)-CO complex. The results agree very well with those observed by McKellar [A. R. W. McKellar J. Chem. Phys. 108, 1811 (1998)]: the discrepancies are smaller than 0.1 cm(-1). The calculated dissociation energy is equal to 19.527 cm(-1) and significantly smaller than the value of 22 cm(-1) estimated from the experiment. Predictions of rovibrational energy levels for ortho-H(2)-CO have also been done and can serve as a guidance to assign recorded experimental spectra. The interaction second virial coefficient has been calculated and compared with the experimental data.
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- Piotr Jankowski
- Department of Quantum Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Nicholaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
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Paesani F, Gianturco FA. Vibrational effects in a weakly-interacting quantum solvent: The CO molecule in 4He gas and in 4He droplets. J Chem Phys 2002. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1478690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Shroll RM, Lohr LL, Barker JR. Empirical potentials for rovibrational energy transfer of hydrogen fluoride in collisions with argon. J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1388547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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KOBAYASHI RIKA, AMOS RD, REID JP, QUINEY HM, SIMPSON CJSM. Coupled clusterab initiopotential energy surfaces for CO… He and CO… H2. Mol Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1080/00268970009483403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Jankowski P, Szalewicz K. Ab initio potential energy surface and infrared spectra of H2-CO and D2-CO van der Waals complexes. J Chem Phys 1998. [DOI: 10.1063/1.475347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Reid JP, Simpson CJSM, Quiney HM. A new He–CO interaction energy surface with vibrational coordinate dependence. II. The vibrational deactivation of CO(v=1) by inelastic collisions with 3He and 4He. J Chem Phys 1997. [DOI: 10.1063/1.475295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Reid J, Barnes P, Simpson C. The vibrational deactivation of N2(v=1) by H2 and HD at low temperatures. Chem Phys Lett 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(97)01133-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Reid JP, Thakkar AJ, Barnes PW, Archibong EF, Quiney HM, Simpson CJSM. Vibrational deactivation of N2(v=1) by inelastic collisions with He3 and He4: An experimental and a theoretical study. J Chem Phys 1997. [DOI: 10.1063/1.475125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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