Superfluid helium droplets: a uniquely cold nanomatrix for molecules and molecular complexes

JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, recent experiments on the spectroscopy and chemical reactions of molecules and
complexes embedded in helium droplets are reviewed. In the droplets, a high spectroscopic …

Infrared spectroscopy of helium nanodroplets: novel methods for physics and chemistry

MY Choi, GE Douberly, TM Falconer… - … Reviews in Physical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Helium nanodroplets have emerged as a new and exciting medium for studying the structure
and dynamics of both this quantum solvent and impurities that can be doped into (onto) and …

Spectroscopy and dynamics in helium nanodroplets

F Stienkemeier, KK Lehmann - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This article provides a review of recent work in the field of helium nanodroplet spectroscopy
with an emphasis on the dynamical aspects of the interactions between molecules in helium …

Helium nanodroplets: An overview

M Barranco, R Guardiola, S Hernández… - Journal of low …, 2006 - Springer
We review the physics of helium nanodroplets with emphasis on theoretical aspects that
have been the subject of recent research, like 3 He and mixed 3 He− 4 He droplets, vortices …

Interplay between theory and experiment in investigations of molecules embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets

K Szalewicz - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Helium is the only substance that has been observed on macroscopic scale to form the
fourth state of matter, the superfluid state. However, until recently superfluid helium had not …

Structure, rotational dynamics, and superfluidity of small OCS-doped He clusters

S Moroni, A Sarsa, S Fantoni, KE Schmidt, S Baroni - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
The structural and dynamical properties of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) molecules solvated in
helium clusters are studied using reptation quantum Monte Carlo, for cluster sizes n= 3–20 …

Nanoscale molecular superfluidity of hydrogen

Y Kwon, KB Whaley - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
We present a microscopic quantum theoretical analysis of the nanoscale superfluid
properties of solvating clusters of para-H 2 around the linear OCS molecule. Path-integral …

Suprafluide heliumtröpfchen: auSSergewöhnlich kalte nanomatrices für moleküle und molekulare komplexe

JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Angewandte Chemie, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Dieser Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über neuere Experimente zur Spektroskopie und zu
chemischen Reaktionen von Molekülen und Komplexen in Heliumtröpfchen. Im Inneren …

Path integral methods for rotating molecules in superfluids

RE Zillich, F Paesani, Y Kwon… - The Journal of chemical …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We present a path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methodology for quantum simulation of
molecular rotations in superfluid environments such as helium and para-hydrogen that …

Cluster dynamics in the range High resolution infrared spectra of

J Tang, ARW McKellar - The Journal of chemical physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Infrared spectra of He N–CO complexes with N up to about 20 have been observed in the
2145 cm− 1 region of the C–O stretch vibration using a tunable diode laser spectrometer to …