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Quantum Angular Momentum Diffusion of Rigid Bodies
Birthe Papendell, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger
We show how to describe the diffusion of the quantized angular momentum vector of an arbitrarily shaped rigid rotor as induced by its collisional interaction with an environment. W…
Rotational friction and diffusion of quantum rotors
Benjamin A. Stickler, Björn Schrinski, Klaus Hornberger
We present the Markovian quantum master equation describing rotational decoherence, friction, diffusion, and thermalization of planar, linear, and asymmetric rotors in contact with…
Conformer-selection by matter-wave interference
Christian Brand, Benjamin A. Stickler, Christian Knobloch +3
We establish that matter-wave interference at near-resonant ultraviolet optical gratings can be used to spatially separate individual conformers of complex molecules. Our calculati…
Optically driven ultra-stable nanomechanical rotor
Stefan Kuhn, Benjamin A. Stickler, Alon Kosloff +4
Nanomechanical devices have attracted the interest of a growing interdisciplinary research community, since they can be used as highly sensitive transducers for various physical qu…
Collapse-induced Orientational Localization of Rigid Rotors
Björn Schrinski, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger
We show how the ro-translational motion of anisotropic particles is affected by the model of Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL), the most prominent hypothetical modification…