Volume 238, 2022

Rotational energy transfer kinetics of optically centrifuged CO molecules investigated through transient IR spectroscopy and master equation simulations

Abstract

A combined experimental and theoretical study of quantum state-resolved rotational energy transfer kinetics of optically centrifuged CO molecules is presented. In the experiments, inverted rotational distributions of CO in rotational states up to J = 80 were prepared using two different optical centrifuge traps, one with the full spectral bandwidth of the optical centrifuge pulses, and one with reduced bandwidth. The relaxation kinetics of the high-J tail of the inverted distribution from each optical trap was determined based on high-resolution transient IR absorption measurements. In parallel studies, master equation simulations were performed using state-to-state rate constants for CO–CO collisions in states up to J = 90, based on data from double-resonance experiments for CO with J = 0–29 and a fit to a statistical power exponential gap model. The model is in qualitative agreement with the observed relaxation profiles, but the observed decay rate constants are smaller than the simulated values by as much as a factor of 10. The observed decay rate constants also have a stronger J-dependence than predicted by the model. The results are discussed in terms of angular momentum and energy conservation, and compared to the observed orientational anisotropy decay kinetics of optically centrifuged CO molecules. Models for rotational energy transfer could be improved by including angular momentum effects.

Graphical abstract: Rotational energy transfer kinetics of optically centrifuged CO molecules investigated through transient IR spectroscopy and master equation simulations

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 3月 2022
Accepted
19 4月 2022
First published
26 4月 2022

Faraday Discuss., 2022,238, 87-102

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Rotational energy transfer kinetics of optically centrifuged CO molecules investigated through transient IR spectroscopy and master equation simulations

M. R. Laskowski, T. J. Michael, Hannah M. Ogden, M. H. Alexander and A. S. Mullin, Faraday Discuss., 2022, 238, 87 DOI: 10.1039/D2FD00068G

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