Quantum control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

Rotational Doppler Effect: A Review

O Emile, J Emile - Annalen der Physik, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Generally, the linear motion between the source of a wave and an observer leads to a linear
Doppler effect. It is associated with the linear momentum of the wave. For electromagnetic …

Real-time observation of molecular spinning with angular high-harmonic spectroscopy

L He, P Lan, AT Le, B Wang, B Wang, X Zhu, P Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate an angular high-harmonic spectroscopy method to probe the spinning
dynamics of a molecular rotation wave packet in real time. With the excitation of two time …

Polarization shaping for unidirectional rotational motion of molecules

G Karras, M Ndong, E Hertz, D Sugny, F Billard… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
Control of the orientation of the angular momentum of linear molecules is demonstrated by
means of laser polarization shaping. For this purpose, we combine two orthogonally …

Quantum unidirectional rotation directly imaged with molecules

K Mizuse, K Kitano, H Hasegawa, Y Ohshima - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
A gas-phase molecular ensemble coherently excited to have an oriented rotational angular
momentum has recently emerged as an appropriate microscopic system to illustrate …

Visualizing molecular unidirectional rotation

K Lin, Q Song, X Gong, Q Ji, H Pan, J Ding, H Zeng… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We directly visualize the spatiotemporal evolution of a unidirectional rotating molecular
rotational wave packet. Excited by two time-delayed polarization-skewed ultrashort laser …

Observation of the field-free orientation of a symmetric-top molecule by terahertz laser pulses at high temperature

P Babilotte, K Hamraoui, F Billard, E Hertz, B Lavorel… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We investigate experimentally and numerically the field-free orientation of the symmetric-top
molecule of methyl iodide at high temperatures using a terahertz radiation generated by a …

Rotation of the polarization of light as a tool for investigating the collisional transfer of angular momentum from rotating molecules to macroscopic gas flows

I Tutunnikov, U Steinitz, E Gershnabel… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We present a detailed theoretical and experimental study of the rotation of the plane of
polarization of light traveling through a gas of fast-spinning molecules. This effect is similar …

Beam deflection measurement of bound-electronic and rotational nonlinear refraction in molecular gases

M Reichert, P Zhao, JM Reed, TR Ensley, DJ Hagan… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A polarization-resolved beam deflection technique is used to separate the bound-electronic
and molecular rotational components of nonlinear refractive transients of molecular gases …

Rotational Doppler effect in harmonic generation from spinning molecules

O Faucher, E Prost, E Hertz, F Billard, B Lavorel… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We present an observation of the rotational Doppler shift in the frequency of optical
harmonic generated in fast rotating molecules. Conservation of energy and angular …