Active control of the dynamics of atoms and molecules

RJ Gordon, SA Rice - Annual review of physical chemistry, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract There has been much progress in the control of chemical reactions since methods
of active control were first proposed by Brumer & Shapiro and by Tannor & Rice ten years …

H2: the benchmark molecule for ultrafast science and technologies

H Ibrahim, C Lefebvre, AD Bandrauk… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article focuses on imaging and controlling ultrafast dynamics of the hydrogen
molecule and its cation, initiated by ultrashort laser pulses. We discuss the mechanisms …

Experimental Observation of Revival Structures in Picosecond Laser-Induced Alignment of

F Rosca-Pruna, MJJ Vrakking - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
We report the experimental observation of revival structures in the alignment of a ground-
state rotational wave packet following nonresonant excitation of I 2 molecules by an intense …

Dynamics of H2+ in intense laser fields

A Giusti-Suzor, FH Mies, LF DiMauro… - Journal of Physics B …, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
A number of unexpected features of small molecules subjected to intense laser fields, with
wavelengths ranging from infrared to ultraviolet, have been observed or predicted in the past …

Coherent control of molecular dynamics

M Shapiro, P Brumer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the principles and some recent advances in the theory of coherent control of
molecular processes and discuss some of its experimental realizations. Amongst the topics …

Model for studies of laser-induced nonlinear processes in molecules

KC Kulander, FH Mies, KJ Schafer - Physical Review A, 1996 - APS
The dynamics of strong-field (∼ 10 14 W/cm 2) multiphoton processes in molecules can be
investigated using a simple, collinear model for H 2+. We discuss properties of this model …

Intense-Laser-Field Ionization of Molecular Hydrogen in the Tunneling Regime <?format ?>and Its Effect on the Vibrational Excitation of

X Urbain, B Fabre, EM Staicu-Casagrande… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
H 2 molecules were ionized by Ti: sapphire (45 fs, 800 nm) and Nd-doped yttrium aluminum
garnet lasers (6 ns, 1064 nm). The relative populations of the vibrational levels of the H 2+ …

Laser-induced alignment dynamics of HCN: Roles of the permanent dipole moment and the polarizability

CM Dion, A Keller, O Atabek, AD Bandrauk - Physical Review A, 1999 - APS
The alignment dynamics of HCN, in a linear configuration, interacting with linearly polarized
infrared laser pulses are studied numerically by exact (nonperturbative) solutions of the time …

Direct signature of light-induced conical intersections in diatomics

GJ Halász, Á Vibók, LS Cederbaum - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic effects are ubiquitous in physics, chemistry, and biology. They are strongly
amplified by conical intersections (CIs), which are degeneracies between electronic states of …

Dynamic and geometric laser-induced alignment of molecules in intense laser fields

JH Posthumus, J Plumridge, MK Thomas… - Journal of Physics B …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
The angular distribution of the ionic fragments from multiphoton dissociative ionization of
diatomic molecules shows a pronounced anisotropy. Calculations within the field-ionization …