Superfluid helium droplets: a uniquely cold nanomatrix for molecules and molecular complexes

JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, recent experiments on the spectroscopy and chemical reactions of molecules and
complexes embedded in helium droplets are reviewed. In the droplets, a high spectroscopic …

Laser-driven nonlinear cluster dynamics

T Fennel, KH Meiwes-Broer, J Tiggesbäumker… - Reviews of modern …, 2010 - APS
Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various
opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser …

Spectroscopy and dynamics in helium nanodroplets

F Stienkemeier, KK Lehmann - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This article provides a review of recent work in the field of helium nanodroplet spectroscopy
with an emphasis on the dynamical aspects of the interactions between molecules in helium …

Cold physics and chemistry: Collisions, ionization and reactions inside helium nanodroplets close to zero K

A Mauracher, O Echt, AM Ellis, S Yang, DK Bohme… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of helium nanodroplets
in the study of ensembles of atoms and molecules, ie clusters and complexes. These …

Helium nanodroplets: An overview

M Barranco, R Guardiola, S Hernández… - Journal of low …, 2006 - Springer
We review the physics of helium nanodroplets with emphasis on theoretical aspects that
have been the subject of recent research, like 3 He and mixed 3 He− 4 He droplets, vortices …

Observing the primary steps of ion solvation in helium droplets

SH Albrechtsen, CA Schouder, A Viñas Muñoz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Solvation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural sciences. At the macroscopic level, it is
well understood through thermodynamics and chemical reaction kinetics,. At the atomic …

Electronic spectroscopy in He droplets

F Stienkemeier, AF Vilesov - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Recent experiments on the electronic spectroscopy of atoms, clusters, and organic
molecules embedded in helium nanodroplets are reviewed. Electronic transitions imply a …

Infrared spectroscopy in superfluid helium droplets

D Verma, RMP Tanyag, SMO O'Connell… - … in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
For more than two decades, encapsulation in superfluid helium nanodroplets has served as
a reliable technique for probing the structure and dynamics of molecules and clusters at a …

The submersion of sodium clusters in helium nanodroplets: Identification of the surface→ interior transition

L An der Lan, P Bartl, C Leidlmair, H Schöbel… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The submersion of sodium clusters beyond a critical size in helium nanodroplets, which has
recently been predicted on theoretical grounds, is demonstrated for the first time …

Long range binding in alkali-helium pairs

U Kleinekathöfer, M Lewerenz, M Mladenović - Physical review letters, 1999 - APS
Variational calculations are performed to search for bound rovibrational states of diatomic
molecules formed from alkali atoms and helium in the very shallow Σ 2 electronic ground …