TY - JOUR
T1 - Complete reconstruction of the wave function of a reacting molecule by four-wave mixing spectroscopy
AU - Avisar, David
AU - Tannor, David
N1 - Minerva Foundation; NSF [PHY05-51164, NSF-KITP-11-027]This research was supported by the Minerva Foundation and by NSF Grant No. PHY05-51164, KITP preprint No. NSF-KITP-11-027. This research is made possible by the historic generosity of the Harold Perlman family.
PY - 2011/4/29
Y1 - 2011/4/29
N2 - Probing the real time dynamics of a reacting molecule remains one of the central challenges in chemistry. Here we show how the time-dependent wave function of an excited-state reacting molecule can be completely reconstructed from resonant coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy. The method assumes knowledge of the ground potential but not of any excited potential. The excited-state potential can in turn be constructed from the wave function. The formulation is general for polyatomics and applies to bound as well as dissociative excited potentials. We demonstrate the method on the Li2 molecule.
AB - Probing the real time dynamics of a reacting molecule remains one of the central challenges in chemistry. Here we show how the time-dependent wave function of an excited-state reacting molecule can be completely reconstructed from resonant coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy. The method assumes knowledge of the ground potential but not of any excited potential. The excited-state potential can in turn be constructed from the wave function. The formulation is general for polyatomics and applies to bound as well as dissociative excited potentials. We demonstrate the method on the Li2 molecule.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.170405
DO - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.170405
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 106
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 17
M1 - 170405
ER -