Hyperfine-Structure-Induced Depolarization of Impulsively Aligned I-2 Molecules

Esben Folger Thomas; Anders A. Sondergaard; Benjamin Shepperson; Niels Engholm Henriksen; Henrik Stapelfeldt

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.163202

Hyperfine-Structure-Induced Depolarization of Impulsively Aligned I-2 Molecules

Esben Folger Thomas, Anders A. Sondergaard, Benjamin Shepperson, Niels Engholm Henriksen, Henrik Stapelfeldt

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Abstract

A moderately intense 450 fs laser pulse is used to create rotational wave packets in gas phase I-2 molecules. The ensuing time-dependent alignment, measured by Coulomb explosion imaging with a delayed probe pulse, exhibits the characteristic revival structures expected for rotational wave packets but also a complex nonperiodic substructure and decreasing mean alignment not observed before. A quantum mechanical model attributes the phenomena to coupling between the rotational angular momenta and the nuclear spins through the electric quadrupole interaction. The calculated alignment trace agrees very well with the experimental results.

Original language	English
Article number	163202
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	16
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0031-9007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.163202
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Hyperfine-Structure-Induced Depolarization of Impulsively Aligned I-2 Molecules

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