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 …

Water: From clusters to the bulk

R Ludwig - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Water is of fundamental importance for human life and plays an important role in many
biological and chemical systems. Although water is the most abundant compound on earth …

New states of matter with fine-tuned interactions: quantum droplets and dipolar supersolids

F Böttcher, JN Schmidt, J Hertkorn… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum fluctuations can stabilize Bose–Einstein condensates (BEC) against the mean-
field collapse. Stabilization of the condensate has been observed in quantum degenerate …

Shapes and vorticities of superfluid helium nanodroplets

LF Gomez, KR Ferguson, JP Cryan, C Bacellar… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Helium nanodroplets are considered ideal model systems to explore quantum
hydrodynamics in self-contained, isolated superfluids. However, exploring the dynamic …

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 …

Infrared spectroscopy of size-selected water and methanol clusters

U Buck, F Huisken - Chemical Reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
The investigation of structural and dynamical properties of weakly bound clusters has
attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. 1-5 They provide an exceptional tool to …

Superfluidity within a small helium-4 cluster: The microscopic Andronikashvili experiment

S Grebenev, JP Toennies, AF Vilesov - Science, 1998 - science.org
The infrared spectrum of single oxygen carbon sulfide (OCS) molecules was measured
inside large superfluid pure helium-4 droplets and nonsuperfluid pure helium-3 droplets …

Formation of cyclic water hexamer in liquid helium: The smallest piece of ice

K Nauta, RE Miller - Science, 2000 - science.org
The cyclic water hexamer, a higher energy isomer than the cage structure previously
characterized in the gas phase, was formed in liquid helium droplets and studied with …

Effects of adiabatic, relativistic, and quantum electrodynamics interactions on the pair potential and thermophysical properties of helium

W Cencek, M Przybytek, J Komasa, JB Mehl… - The Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The adiabatic, relativistic, and quantum electrodynamics (QED) contributions to the pair
potential of helium were computed, fitted separately, and applied, together with the …

Cluster–surface interaction: From soft landing to implantation

VN Popok, I Barke, EEB Campbell… - Surface Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The current paper presents a state-of-the-art review in the field of interaction of atomic and
molecular clusters with solids. We do not attempt to overview the entire broad field, but …