Quantum control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

Spatiotemporal rotational dynamics of laser-driven molecules

K Lin, I Tutunnikov, J Ma, J Qiang, L Zhou… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Molecular alignment and orientation by laser fields has attracted significant attention in
recent years, mostly due to new capabilities to manipulate the molecular spatial …

Controlled enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules with an optical centrifuge

AA Milner, JAM Fordyce, I MacPhail-Bartley… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We report on the first experimental demonstration of enantioselective rotational control of
chiral molecules with a laser field. In our experiments, two enantiomers of propylene oxide …

Real-time observation of molecular spinning with angular high-harmonic spectroscopy

L He, P Lan, AT Le, B Wang, B Wang, X Zhu, P Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate an angular high-harmonic spectroscopy method to probe the spinning
dynamics of a molecular rotation wave packet in real time. With the excitation of two time …

Selective orientation of chiral molecules by laser fields with twisted polarization

I Tutunnikov, E Gershnabel, S Gold… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We explore a pure optical method for enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules by
means of laser fields with twisted polarization. Several field implementations are considered …

Direct imaging of molecular rotation with high-order-harmonic generation

Y He, L He, P Lan, B Wang, L Li, X Zhu, W Cao, P Lu - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Direct imaging of molecular dynamics is a long-standing goal in physics and chemistry. As
an emerging tool, high-order-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) enables accessing molecular …

Quantum unidirectional rotation directly imaged with molecules

K Mizuse, K Kitano, H Hasegawa, Y Ohshima - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
A gas-phase molecular ensemble coherently excited to have an oriented rotational angular
momentum has recently emerged as an appropriate microscopic system to illustrate …

Echoes in space and time

K Lin, P Lu, J Ma, X Gong, Q Song, Q Ji, W Zhang… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Echo in mountains is a well-known phenomenon, where an acoustic pulse is mirrored by the
rocks, often with reverberating recurrences. For spin echoes in magnetic resonance and …

Orienting asymmetric molecules by laser fields with twisted polarization

E Gershnabel, IS Averbukh - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We study interaction of generic asymmetric molecules with laser fields having twisted
polarization, using a pair of strong time-delayed short laser pulses with crossed linear …

Intermolecular interactions probed by rotational dynamics in gas-phase clusters

C Lu, L Xu, L Zhou, M Shi, P Lu, W Li, R Dörner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The rotational dynamics of a molecule is sensitive to neighboring atoms or molecules, which
can be used to probe the intermolecular interactions in the gas phase. Here, we real-time …