Nonadiabatic Laser-Induced Alignment Dynamics of Molecules on a Surface

Lorenz Kranabetter, Henrik H. Kristensen, Areg Ghazaryan +7

We demonstrate that a sodium dimer, Na${}_2$($1^3{\Sigma }_u^{+}$), residing on the surface of a helium nanodroplet, can be set into rotation by a nonresonant 1.0 ps infrared laser pulse.…