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An effective scheme for the laser control of wavepacket dynamics applicable to systems with many degrees of freedom is discussed. It is demonstrated that specially designed quadratically chirped pulses can be used to achieve fast and near-complete excitation of the wavepacket without significantly distorting its shape. The parameters of the laser pulse can be estimated analytically from the Zhu-Nakamura (ZN) theory of nonadiabatic transitions. The scheme is applicable to various processes, such as simple electronic excitations, pump-dumps, and selective bond-breaking, and, taking diatomic and triatomic molecules as examples, it is actually shown to work well.
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Zou, S., Kondorskiy, A., Mil’nikov, G., Nakamura, H. (2007). Laser Control of Chemical Dynamics. I. Control of Electronic Transitions by Quadratic Chirping. In: Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 85. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38156-3_5
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