Atomic and molecular defects in solid 4He

P Moroshkin, A Hofer, A Weis - Physics reports, 2008 - Elsevier
The studies of defects formed by impurity particles (atoms, molecules, exciplexes, clusters,
free electrons, and positive ions) embedded in liquid and solid 4He are reviewed. The …

Ultrafast dynamics of halogens in rare gas solids

M Gühr, M Bargheer, M Fushitani, T Kiljunen… - Physical Chemistry …, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform time resolved pump–probe spectroscopy on small halogen molecules ClF, Cl2,
Br2, and I2 embedded in rare gas solids (RGS). We find that dissociation, angular …

Reaction dynamics within a cluster environment

M Briant, JM Mestdagh, MA Gaveau… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective article reviews experimental and theoretical works where rare gas clusters
and helium nanodroplets are used as a nanoreactor to investigate chemical dynamics in a …

Normal and hyperspherical mode analysis of NO-doped Kr crystals upon Rydberg excitation of the impurity

JC Castro Palacio, L Velazquez Abad… - The Journal of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations and both normal mode and hyperspherical mode analyses
of NO-doped Kr solid are carried out in order to get insights into the structural relaxation of …

The intermolecular potential of NO (A2Σ)–Ne: An ab initio study

P Pajón-Suárez, G Rojas-Lorenzo… - Chemical physics …, 2006 - Elsevier
The intermolecular potential of the first Rydberg state of the NO–Ne system has been
calculated using highly accurate ab initio calculations. The interaction is repulsive with …

Joint Experimental−Theoretical Investigation of the Lower Bound States of the NO(X2Π)-Kr Complex

B Wen, H Meyer, J Kłos… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We describe the first measurement of the near IR spectrum of the NO− Kr van der Waals
complex. A variant of IR-REMPI double-resonance spectroscopy is employed in which the IR …

Time resolved observation of the solvation dynamics of a Rydberg excited molecule deposited on an argon cluster-I: DABCO☆ at short times

S Awali, L Poisson, B Soep, MA Gaveau… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper is a joint experimental and theoretical approach concerning a molecule
deposited on a large argon cluster. The spectroscopy and the dynamics of the deposited …

Ultrafast, correlated multidimensional shell dynamics of neon matrices after photoexcitation of an NO impurity: An MCTDH approach

L Uranga-Piña, C Meier, J Rubayo-Soneira - Chemical Physics Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Photoexcitation of NO embedded in rare gas matrices triggers a shock-wave like radial
perturbation of the surrounding rare gas atoms. In this Letter, we present quantum dynamical …

An effective temperature approach for molecular dynamics simulations of quantum solids

L Uranga-Piña, A Martínez-Mesa… - Chemical physics …, 2006 - Elsevier
We examine two standard methods to incorporate quantum effects in classical molecular
dynamics simulations of quantum solids. It is shown that thermal harmonic quantum …

Coherent phonon dynamics: Br 2 in solid Ar

M Gühr, N Schwentner - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
A long lasting coherent oscillation with a sharp frequency of fp= 2 THz is observed in fs
pump probe spectra for B← X excitation of Br2 in solid argon. It exactly matches the …