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Molecular Axis Distribution Moments in Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy: A Path Towards Ultrafast Quantum State Tomography

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08245v1
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:06:58 GMT
Title: Molecular Axis Distribution Moments in Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy: A Path Towards Ultrafast Quantum State Tomography
Authors: Shashank Kumar, Eric Liu, Liang Z. Tan, Varun Makhija, Niranjan Shivaram,
Abstract summary: In ultrafast experiments with gas phase molecules, the alignment of the molecular axis relative to the polarization of the interacting laser pulses plays a crucial role.<n>We show that our formalism allows us to also evaluate the anisotropic contributions to the spectrum.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: In ultrafast experiments with gas phase molecules, the alignment of the molecular axis relative to the polarization of the interacting laser pulses plays a crucial role in determining the dynamics following this light-matter interaction. The molecular axis distribution is influenced by the interacting pulses and is intrinsically linked to the electronic coherences of the excited molecules. However, in typical theoretical calculations of such interactions, the signal is either calculated for a single molecule in the molecular frame or averaged over all possible molecular orientations to compare with the experiment. This averaging leads to the loss of information about anisotropy in the molecular-axis distribution, which could significantly affect the measured experimental signal. Here, we calculate the laboratory frame transient electronic first-order polarization ($P^{(1)}$) spectra in terms of separated molecular frame and laboratory frame quantities. The laboratory frame polarizations are compared with orientation-averaged Quantum Master Equation (QME) calculations, demonstrating that orientation-averaging captures only the isotropic contributions. We show that our formalism allows us to also evaluate the anisotropic contributions to the spectrum. Finally, we discuss the application of this approach to achieve ultrafast quantum state tomography using transient absorption spectroscopy and field observables in nonlinear spectroscopy.

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