Measurement of hyperfine polarization quantum beats in a polyatomic molecule
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 85 (11) , 6335-6339
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.451463
Abstract
Polarization quantum beats between hyperfine components of perturbed rotational states in the S1→S0 fluorescence of propynal (HC≡CCHO) have been measured. The quantum beats are explained by a periodic transfer of molecular alignment to nuclear spin polarization.Keywords
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