RT Journal Article
T1 Circularly polarized light-induced potentials and the demise of excited states
A1 Carrasco, Sebastián
A1 Rogan, José
A1 Valdivia, Juan Alejandro
A1 Chang, Bo Y
A1 Malinovsky, Vladimir S
A1 Sola Reija, Ignacio
AB In the presence of strong electric fields, the excited states of single-electron molecules and molecules with large transient dipoles become unstable because of anti-alignment, the rotation of the molecular axis perpendicular to the field vector, where bond hardening is not possible. We show how to overcome this problem by using circularly polarized electromagnetic fields. Using a full quantum description of the vibrational, and rotational degrees of freedom, we characterize the excited electronic state rotational eigenstates. Although the dynamics is metastable, most of the population remains trapped in this dressed by the field and analyze its dependence on the bond length and angle and the stability of its vibro-excited state for hundreds of femtoseconds, allowing quantum control. Contrary to what happens with linearly polarized fields, the photodissociation occurs along the initial molecular axis, not perpendicular to it.
PB Royal Society of Chemistry
YR 2021
FD 2021-12-28
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115324
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115324
LA eng
NO Laboratorio de Investigación del Ejército
NO Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
NO Centro para el Desarrollo de la Nanociencia y la Nanotecnología (CEDENNA)
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025