Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Observing collisions beyond the secular approximation limit

  • Junyang Ma,
  • Haisu Zhang,
  • Bruno Lavorel,
  • Franck Billard,
  • Edouard Hertz,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Christian Boulet,
  • Jean-Michel Hartmann,
  • Olivier Faucher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13706-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Ultrafast molecular relaxation can be probed with short laser pulses. Here the authors study collisional behavior of a N2O and He mixture beyond secular approximation by aligning them using laser pulses and probing their rotational echoes.