Daniel A Brue | PubMed Health

PubMed2006

General laser interaction theory in atom-diatom systems for both adiabatic and nonadiabatic cases.

This paper develops the general theory for laser fields interacting with bimolecular systems. In this study, we choose to use the multipolar gauge on the basis of gauge invariance. We consider both the adiabatic and nonadiabatic cases and find they produce similar interaction pictures. As an application of this theory, we present the study of rovibrational energy transfer in Ar + CO collisions in the presence of an intense laser field.

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PubMed2005

Conical intersection between the lowest spin-aligned Li3(4A') potential-energy surfaces.

We have calculated new potential-energy surfaces for the lowest two spin-aligned (4)A(') states of the Li(3) trimer. This calculation shows a seam of conical intersections between these states resulting from the extra symmetry of the system when the atoms are in a collinear arrangement. This seam is especially important because of its proximity to the three-body dissociation limit of the system; ultracold scattering calculations and the bound-state energies of the system will be affected by the presence of this conical intersection. In this paper we discuss the calculation of the potential-energy surface and the location of the conical intersection seam.

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