Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future

C Brif, R Chakrabarti, H Rabitz - New Journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

Simulating the vibrational quantum dynamics of molecules using photonics

C Sparrow, E Martín-López, N Maraviglia, A Neville… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in control techniques for vibrational quantum states in molecules present new
challenges for modelling such systems, which could be amenable to quantum simulation …

Enhanced enantioselectivity in excitation of chiral molecules by superchiral light

Y Tang, AE Cohen - Science, 2011 - science.org
A molecule or larger body is chiral if it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image
(enantiomer). Electromagnetic fields may be chiral, too, with circularly polarized light (CPL) …

Floquet engineering with quasienergy bands of periodically driven optical lattices

M Holthaus - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided,
and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure …

SHARC: ab Initio Molecular Dynamics with Surface Hop** in the Adiabatic Representation Including Arbitrary Couplings

M Richter, P Marquetand… - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a semiclassical surface-hop** method which is able to treat arbitrary
couplings in molecular systems including all degrees of freedom. A reformulation of the …

Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields

M Lemeshko, RV Krems, JM Doyle, S Kais - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present article is to review the major developments that have led to the
current understanding of molecule–field interactions and experimental methods for …

Gas-phase infrared multiple photon dissociation spectroscopy of mass-selected molecular ions

J Oomens, BG Sartakov, G Meijer… - International Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this review, we present an overview of our recent work on the infrared spectroscopy of
mass-selected gas-phase molecular ions. The ions are stored and isolated in a quadrupole …

Femtosecond imaging of surface plasmon dynamics in a nanostructured silver film

A Kubo, K Onda, H Petek, Z Sun, YS Jung, HK Kim - Nano letters, 2005 - ACS Publications
Light interacting with nanostructured metals excites the collective charge density fluctuations
known as surface plasmons (SP). Through excitation of the localized SP eigenmodes …

Toward control of electron transfer in donor-acceptor molecules by bond-specific infrared excitation

M Delor, PA Scattergood, IV Sazanovich, AW Parker… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Electron transfer (ET) from donor to acceptor is often mediated by nuclear-electronic
(vibronic) interactions in molecular bridges. Using an ultrafast electronic-vibrational …