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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Alignment transport between ultracold polar molecules
Jonathan Smucker1, Jesus Pérez-Ríos1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, 11790, USA. jonathan.smucker@stonybrook.edu.
Abstract:
We propose an array of ultracold polar molecules as a platform to study alignment transport between molecules. We envision a polar molecule being aligned with an intense off-resonant laser field whose alignment migrates to a nearby molecule due to dipole-dipole interactions. Our results show that the transport of the alignment is due to a complex interplay between electric field-driven excitations and dipole-dipole interactions. All mechanisms for alignment transfer are elucidated and analyzed. Using NaCs as a prototype molecule, we find that the time for alignment transfer is (10 μs), which makes the phenomena readily observable in the lab.
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