Nonspreading wave packets of diatomic molecules: Generation and control
Abstract
A circularly polarized electric field is used to create a trap that can guide the rotational motion of diatomic molecules. Theoretical analyses and numerical calculations support the existence of trapped nonspreading wave packets rotating with a electric field. Optimal coherent control of the rotational motion of diatomic molecules can be achieved by manipulating the nonspreading wave packets with a circularly polarized electric field whose amplitude and frequency are changed adiabatically.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- April 2001
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvA..63d3420K
- Keywords:
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- 33.80.Rv;
- 31.15.-p;
- 03.65.Ge;
- Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states;
- Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics;
- Solutions of wave equations: bound states