Molecular photon echoes as a signature of vibrational cat states
arXiv:quant-ph/0005104
Abstract
Quantum interference between two distinct vibrational trajectories induced by two pulse femtosecond excitation in molecules is shown to result in a photon echo, providing direct evidence of the cat state superposition of Gaussian vibrational wavepackets.
3 pages, including 2 figures, contribution for the Technical Digest of the conference on Nonlinear Optics, held August 2000 in Hawaii, equation (5) corrected