Physics – Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Scientific paper
2009-09-25
Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
4.1 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy has been used to study vibrational dynamics of potassium dimers attached to superfluid helium nanodroplets. Comparing the measured data with theoretical results based on dissipative quantum dynamics we propose that the most important effect of the helium environment is a general damping of the vibrational dynamics as a result of the interaction between dimer and collective degrees of freedom of the helium droplet. The calculations allow us to explain crucial experimental findings that are unobserved in gas-phase measurements. Remarkably, best agreement with experiment is found for a model where we neglect damping once a wave packet moves below a critical velocity. In this way the results provide first direct evidence for the Landau critical velocity in superfluid nanodroplets.
Mudrich Marcel
Schlesinger Martin
Stienkemeier Frank
Strunz Walter. T.
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