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Dynamics and the breaking of a driven cage: I2 in solid Ar.
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Journal of Chemical Physics . 4/22/2004, Vol. 120 Issue 16, p7576-7589. 14p. 2 Diagrams, 14 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Pump–probe measurements of I2 in solid Ar are reported and analyzed to extract a description of cage response to impulsive excitation, from the gentle kick, up to the breaking point. The most informative data are obtained through wavepacket motion on cage-bound, but otherwise dissociative, potentials where the chromophore acts as a transducer to drive the cage and to report on the local dynamics. This general class of dynamics is identified and analyzed as a function of energy in Ar, Kr, and Xe. The overdriven cage rebounds with a characteristic period of 1.2 ps that shows little dependence on excitation amplitude in all hosts. After rebound, the cage rings as a local resonant mode in Ar, with a period of 1 ps and dephasing time of 3 ps. This mode remains at the Debye edge in Kr and Xe, with periods of 630 and 800 fs, and dephasing times of 8 and 6 ps, respectively. In the bound B-state, the cage fluctuates toward its dilated equilibrium structure on a time scale of 3 ps, which is extracted from the down-chirp in the molecular vibrational frequency. When kicked with excess energy of 4 eV, the Ar cage breaks with 50% probability, and the molecule dissociates. The kinetics of polarization selective, multiphoton dissociation with Gaussian laser intensity profiles is delineated and the ballistics of cage breakout is described: The photodissociation proceeds by destruction of the local lattice, by creating interstitials and vacancies. During large amplitude motion on cage-bound potentials, sudden, nonadiabatic spin–flip transitions can be observed and quantified in space and time. The spin–flip occurs with unit probability in Ar when the I*–I bond is stretched beyond 6 Å. © 2004 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00219606
- Volume :
- 120
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12727274
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1689958