Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions
Abstract
Imaging laser-induced rotational dynamics is an important and active field due to its applications in capturing reactions in the molecular frame and in molecular imaging. Experimental measurement of the molecular orientation distribution, as a function of the Euler angles, has only been demonstrated for special cases when the detectable signal is generated along the molecular symmetry axis. Here we developed the general theory that maps the probability density distribution of the molecular orientation to the atom-pair angular distributions for nonlinear molecules. With the theory, the molecular orientation distribution can be retrieved from the measured atom-pair angular distribution, which we demonstrate experimentally using ultrafast electron diffractive imaging of impulsively aligned trifluoro-iodomethane molecules. Here, the retrieved molecular orientation distribution is in good agreement with direct numerical simulations of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation using the experimental conditions. Unlike the existing retrieval methods, the retrieval method does not require solving Schrodinger equation, works for any alignment method, and is in principle applicable to asymmetric top molecules.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation, Physics Division, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1887801
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0014170; PHY-1606619
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Atomic & molecular processes in external fields; Electron & positron scattering; Electron beams & optics; Light-matter interaction; Ultrafast phenomena
Citation Formats
Xiong, Yanwei, Wilkin, Kyle J., Saha, Sajib Kumar, Muvva, Sri Bhavya, Zhao, Haoran, and Centurion, Martin. Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.106.033109.
Xiong, Yanwei, Wilkin, Kyle J., Saha, Sajib Kumar, Muvva, Sri Bhavya, Zhao, Haoran, & Centurion, Martin. Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.106.033109
Xiong, Yanwei, Wilkin, Kyle J., Saha, Sajib Kumar, Muvva, Sri Bhavya, Zhao, Haoran, and Centurion, Martin. Mon .
"Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.106.033109. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1887801.
@article{osti_1887801,
title = {Retrieval of the molecular orientation distribution from atom-pair angular distributions},
author = {Xiong, Yanwei and Wilkin, Kyle J. and Saha, Sajib Kumar and Muvva, Sri Bhavya and Zhao, Haoran and Centurion, Martin},
abstractNote = {Imaging laser-induced rotational dynamics is an important and active field due to its applications in capturing reactions in the molecular frame and in molecular imaging. Experimental measurement of the molecular orientation distribution, as a function of the Euler angles, has only been demonstrated for special cases when the detectable signal is generated along the molecular symmetry axis. Here we developed the general theory that maps the probability density distribution of the molecular orientation to the atom-pair angular distributions for nonlinear molecules. With the theory, the molecular orientation distribution can be retrieved from the measured atom-pair angular distribution, which we demonstrate experimentally using ultrafast electron diffractive imaging of impulsively aligned trifluoro-iodomethane molecules. Here, the retrieved molecular orientation distribution is in good agreement with direct numerical simulations of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation using the experimental conditions. Unlike the existing retrieval methods, the retrieval method does not require solving Schrodinger equation, works for any alignment method, and is in principle applicable to asymmetric top molecules.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.106.033109},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 3,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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