| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Coherent control of rotational wave-packet dynamics via fractional revivals (PDF, 385 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.093001 |
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| Author | Search for: Spanner, Michael1; Search for: Shapiro, E.1; Search for: Ivanov, Mikhail1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Abstract | We show (i) how the evolution of a wave packet created from an initial thermal ensemble can be controlled by manipulating interferences during the wave packet’s fractional revivals and (ii) how the wave-packet evolution can be mapped onto the dynamics of a few-state system, where the number of states is determined by the amount of information one wants to track about the wave packet in the phase space. We illustrate our approach by (i) switching off and on field-free molecular axis alignment induced by a strong laser pulse and (ii) converting alignment into field-free orientation, starting with rotationally cold or hot systems. |
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| Publication date | 2004-03-03 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 12327432 |
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| Record identifier | 52f851eb-a671-421d-9f39-0c823f082865 |
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| Record created | 2009-09-10 |
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| Record modified | 2023-05-16 |
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