Wave-packet interferometry and molecular state reconstruction: spectroscopic adventures on the left-hand side of the Schrödinger equation. Cina, J. A Annual review of physical chemistry, 59:319–42, January, 2008.
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This article summarizes theoretical studies of molecular state determination by wave-packet interferometry (WPI) and recounts some recent experimental applications of molecular WPI. Calculations predict that two-color nonlinear WPI data can be used to reconstruct a rovibronic target wave packet evolving under an incompletely characterized nuclear Hamiltonian. This can be accomplished by the isolation via phase cycling or wave-vector matching of an exhaustive collection of overlaps between the unknown target and the members of a family of reference wave packets whose form is known by construction. This review highlights recent experiments employing WPI to gain amplitude-level information about the photoexcited-state dynamics of small molecules in the gas phase and in rare-gas crystals. I briefly describe a new semiclassical theory for condensed-phase WPI and other coherence-spectroscopy measurements, such as time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, and mention our initial studies of nonlinear WPI from electronic energy-transfer complexes.
@article{Cina2008,
	title = {Wave-packet interferometry and molecular state reconstruction: spectroscopic adventures on the left-hand side of the {Schrödinger} equation.},
	volume = {59},
	issn = {0066-426X},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18031213},
	doi = {10.1146/annurev.physchem.59.032607.093753},
	abstract = {This article summarizes theoretical studies of molecular state determination by wave-packet interferometry (WPI) and recounts some recent experimental applications of molecular WPI. Calculations predict that two-color nonlinear WPI data can be used to reconstruct a rovibronic target wave packet evolving under an incompletely characterized nuclear Hamiltonian. This can be accomplished by the isolation via phase cycling or wave-vector matching of an exhaustive collection of overlaps between the unknown target and the members of a family of reference wave packets whose form is known by construction. This review highlights recent experiments employing WPI to gain amplitude-level information about the photoexcited-state dynamics of small molecules in the gas phase and in rare-gas crystals. I briefly describe a new semiclassical theory for condensed-phase WPI and other coherence-spectroscopy measurements, such as time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, and mention our initial studies of nonlinear WPI from electronic energy-transfer complexes.},
	urldate = {2012-07-18},
	journal = {Annual review of physical chemistry},
	author = {Cina, Jeffrey A},
	month = jan,
	year = {2008},
	pmid = {18031213},
	keywords = {\#nosource},
	pages = {319--42},
}

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