Production of ultracold polyatomic molecules with strong polarity by laser cooling: A detailed theoretical study on CaNC and SrNC [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Laser cooling molecules to the ultracold regime is the prerequisite for many novel science and technologies. It is desirable to take advantage of theoretical approaches to explore polyatomic molecular candidates, which are capable of being cooled to the ...
Wensha Xia +5 more
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Attosecond delays between dissociative and non-dissociative ionization of polyatomic molecules [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The interplay between electronic and nuclear motions in molecules is a central concept in molecular science. To what extent it influences attosecond photoionization delays is an important, still unresolved question. Here, we apply attosecond electron-ion
Xiaochun Gong +5 more
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Elucidating the origins of multimode vibrational coherences of polyatomic molecules induced by intense laser fields [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Nuclear dynamics of polyatomic molecules involves multiple degrees of freedom and is challenging to explore. Here the authors study the internuclear distance-dependent depletion and bond-softening induced vibrational wavepacket dynamics of CH3I molecules
Zhengrong Wei +8 more
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Nonempirical models for assessing thermal properties of nonlinear triatomic molecules of the form XY₂ [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe current study explores computational models developed using the improved Scarf potential and harmonic oscillator to simulate vibrational modes in nonlinear polyatomic systems.
E. S. Eyube +7 more
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Adsorption of Ternary Mixtures in the Presence of Multisite Occupancy: Theory and Monte Carlo Simulations [PDF]
EntropyAdsorption of multicomponent mixtures on solid substrates is essential to numerous technological processes and provides key insights into surface phenomena.
Pablo Jesús Longone +1 more
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Photoassociation of ultracold long-range polyatomic molecules
Physical Review Research, 2021 We explore the feasibility of optically forming long-range tetratomic and larger polyatomic molecules in their ground electronic state from ultracold pairs of polar molecules aligned by external fields.
Marko Gacesa +4 more
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Novel optical soliton molecules formed in a fiber laser with near-zero net cavity dispersion
Light: Science & Applications, 2023 Three novel types of polyatomic soliton molecules are reported and they are conceptually analogues to the multi-atom molecules in chemistry.
Xiao Hu +6 more
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Natural Sciences, 2022 Quantum interference between multiple pathways in molecular photodissociation often results in angular momentum polarization of atomic products and this can give deep insight into fundamental physical processes.
Chaya Weeraratna +2 more
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Prospects for laser cooling of polyatomic molecules with increasing complexity
Physical Review Research, 2020 Optical cycling transitions and direct laser cooling have recently been demonstrated for a number of alkaline-earth dimers and trimer molecules. This is made possible by diagonal Franck-Condon factors between the vibrational modes of the optical ...
Jacek Kłos, Svetlana Kotochigova
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New Journal of Physics, 2023 Polyatomic molecules have been identified as sensitive probes of charge-parity violating and parity violating physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). For example, many linear triatomic molecules are both laser-coolable and have parity doublets in the ...
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