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Journal of Chemical Physics / Volume 135 / Issue 22 / ARTICLES / Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry

J. Chem. Phys. 135, 224301 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3663710 (7 pages)

Coherent control of molecular torsion

Shane M. Parker, Mark A. Ratner, and Tamar Seideman

Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

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(Received 25 July 2011; accepted 4 November 2011; published online 8 December 2011)

We propose a coherent, strong-field approach to control the torsional modes of biphenyl derivatives, and develop a numerical scheme to simulate the torsional dynamics. By choice of the field parameters, the method can be applied either to drive the torsion angle to an arbitrary configuration or to induce free internal rotation. Transient absorption spectroscopy is suggested as a probe of torsional control and the usefulness of this approach is numerically explored. Several consequences of our ability to manipulate molecular torsional motions are considered. These include a method for the inversion of molecular chirality and an ultrafast chiral switch.

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Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. CONTROL SCHEME
  3. THEORY
    1. Model Hamiltonian
    2. Stationary states and the Whittaker-Hill equation
    3. Quantum dynamics
    4. Transient absorption spectra
  4. RESULTS
    1. Adiabatic limit
    2. Sudden limit
  5. DISCUSSION
  6. CONCLUSIONS

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

chirality, librational states, organic compounds, rotational isomerism

PACS

  • 33.15.Mt

    Rotation, vibration, and vibration-rotation constants

  • 33.20.Tp

    Vibrational analysis

  • 33.55.+b

    Optical activity and dichroism

  • 33.15.Bh

    General molecular conformation and symmetry; stereochemistry

  • 33.15.Hp

    Barrier heights (internal rotation, inversion, rotational isomerism, conformational dynamics)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3663710

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0021-9606 (print)  
1089-7690 (online)

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