Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules

Details Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules Rotational master equation for cold laser-driven molecules

2003-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304155v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.67.063805

The equations of motion for the molecular rotation are derived for vibrationally cold dimers that are polarized by off-resonant laser light. It is shown that, by eliminating electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom, a quantum master equation for the reduced rotational density operator can be obtained. The coherent rotational dynamics is caused by stimulated Raman transitions, whereas spontaneous Raman transitions lead to decoherence in the motion of the quantized angular momentum. As an example the molecular dynamics for the optical Kerr effect is chosen, revealing decoherence and heating of the molecular rotation.

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