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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 89, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.051401
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- Mildred Dresselhaus Award
- Spanish Ministry of Science [FIS2011-24540]
- Andalusian research group [FQM-207]
- Universidad de Granada
- Joachim Herz Stiftung
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We demonstrate and analyze a strongly driven quantum pendulum in the angular motion of state-selected and laser-aligned carbonyl sulfide molecules. Raman couplings during the rising edge of a 50-ps laser pulse create a wave packet of pendular states, which propagates in the confining potential formed by the polarizability interaction between the molecule and the laser field. This wave-packet dynamics manifests itself as pronounced oscillations in the degree of alignment with a laser-intensity-dependent period.
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