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1Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 North University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
Abstract:
Nonlinear spectroscopic signals in liquid solution were calculated without treating the field-matter interaction in a perturbative manner. The calculation is based on the assumption that the intermolecular degrees of freedom can be treated classically, while the time evolution of the electronic state is treated quantum mechanically. The calculated overall electronic polarization is then resolved into its directional components via the method of Seidner et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 103, 3998 (1995)]. It is shown that the time dependence of the directional components is independent of laser intensity in the impulsive pulse regime, which allows for flexibility in choosing the procedure for calculating optical response functions. The utility and robustness of the nonperturbative procedure is demonstrated in the case of a two-state chromophore solvated in a monoatomic liquid, by calculating nonlinear time-domain signals in the strong-field, weak-field, impulsive, and nonimpulsive regimes.
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