Nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment dynamics of alkali dimers on the surface of a helium droplet

Henrik H. Kristensen, Lorenz Kranabetter, Areg Ghazaryan +6

Alkali dimers, ${\mathrm{Ak}}_2$, located on the surface of a helium nanodroplet, are set into rotation through the polarizability interaction with a nonresonant 1-ps-long laser puls…