Strong nuclear ring currents and magnetic fields in pseudorotating OsH4 molecule induced by circularly polarized laser pulses
Strong nuclear ring currents and magnetic fields in pseudorotating OsH4 molecule induced by circularly polarized laser pulses
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圆偏振激光脉冲诱导赝旋转 OsH4 分子中的强核环电流和磁场
DOI:
10.1002/asia.201100776
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发表时间:
2012
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and Joern Manz
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Ingo Barch;Christian Bressler;Shiro Koseki;and Joern Manz
We design a circularly polarized laser pulse in the infrared frequency and femtosecond time domains, for excitation of the OsH4 molecule in its first excited pseudorotational state of the triply‐degenerate bend. The OsH4 molecule need not be pre‐oriented. After excitation, the central nucleus Os carries out pseudorotation about the axis parallel to the direction of propagation of the laser pulse. This pseudorotation causes a strong electric ring current with a value I= 1.53 e fs− 1. The mean value of the radius of the ring current is very small, R= 0.0031 a0, where a0 is the Bohr radius. According to the Biot–Savart law (| ⃗\bfB (R= 0)|∼ I/R), this nuclear ring current induces the strongest magnetic field predicted so far in molecules, with a central peak absolute value| ⃗\bfB (R= 0)|= 623 T. To monitor the effect, we propose an IR‐pump–X‐ray‐probe versus an X‐ray‐probe‐only experiment, at the K‐and l‐edges of X‐ray ionization. The results are based on the general quantum theory of excitations of pseudorotations in tetrahedral molecules AB4, driven by a circularly polarized laser pulse.