Laser Control
People
Project coordinator: Oliver Kühn
Co-worker: Alejandro Ramos
Collaboration: Karsten Heyne (FU Berlin)
Project description
Chemical reactions are usually controlled by tuning macroscopic parameters suchas temperature, pressure or pH. The interaction with IR laser light provides a means to control reactions on a molecular scale. To achieve this goal one has to succeffully compete with intramolecular energy redistribution and intermolecular energy. dissipation. Key to the success is finding the proper vibrational modes projecting onto the reaction coordinate. Simulation of IR laser driving has to account for the quantum nature of nuclear dynamics in particular if proton transfer is involved.
Publications
Acceleration of a ground state reaction by selective femtosecond infrared laser pulse excitation
Nature Chemistry 10, 126 (2018) [LINK]
Financing
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft