Orientation and Alignment dynamics of polar molecule driven by shaped laser pulses

VV Nautiyal, S Devi, A Tyagi, B Vidhani, A Maan… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the theoretical status of intense laser induced orientation and alignment-a field of
study which lies at the interface of intense laser physics and chemical dynamics and having …

Side-impact collisions of Ar with NO

CG Heid, V Walpole, M Brouard, PG Jambrina… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the realm of molecular collision dynamics, stereochemistry refers to the dependence of
the collision outcome on the mutual orientation of the colliding partners. This may involve …

Controlling the spin–orbit branching fraction in molecular collisions

CG Heid, IP Bentham, V Walpole… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The collision geometry, that is, the relative orientation of reactants before interaction, can
have a large effect on how a collision or reaction proceeds. Certain geometries may prevent …

Probing the location of the unpaired electron in spin–orbit changing collisions of NO with Ar

CG Heid, IP Bentham, V Walpole… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the molecular forces that drive a reaction or scattering process lies at the
heart of molecular dynamics. Here, we present a combined experimental and theoretical …

Steric effects in the inelastic scattering of NO (X)+ Ar: Side-on orientation

V Walpole, CG Heid, PG Jambrina… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The rotationally inelastic collisions of NO (X) with Ar, in which the NO bond-axis is oriented
side-on (ie, perpendicular) to the incoming collision partner, are investigated experimentally …

Differential steric effects in the inelastic scattering of NO (X)+ Ar: spin–orbit changing transitions

M Brouard, SDS Gordon, B Nichols… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Spin–orbit changing transitions for bond-axis oriented collisions of NO (X) with Ar have been
investigated with full quantum state selection via a crossed molecular beam experiment at …

Semiclassical initial value theory of rotationally inelastic scattering: Some remarks on the phase index in the interaction picture

L Bonnet - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper deals with the treatment of quantum interferences in the semiclassical initial
value theory of rotationally inelastic scattering in the interaction picture. Like many …

Inelastic collision dynamics of oriented NO molecules with Kr atoms

CG Heid, IP Bentham, R Gheorghe… - Molecular …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Building on our previous work on NO+ Ar, this paper presents a complete set of orientation
measurements and quantum mechanical calculations for the NO+ Kr collision system …

Semiclassical initial value representation: From Møller to Miller. II

L Bonnet - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
As shown by WH Miller in a seminal article [J. Chem. Phys. 53, 3578 (1970)], the most
convenient and accurate semiclassical (SC) theory of molecular scattering in action-angle …

Molecular orientation induced by H+ collision and modulated with combined fields

Z Ge, X Hou, Y Zhao, Q Meng - Chinese Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We take H^++ CO as a prototype to analyze the effect of ion or proton collision on molecular
orientation modulated by a two-color shaped pulse combined with the time-delayed …