ROTATIONAL AND SPIN-ORBIT DISTRIBUTIONS OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY DESORBED MOLECULES

Authors
ZIMMERMANN FM HO W
Citation
Fm. Zimmermann et W. Ho, ROTATIONAL AND SPIN-ORBIT DISTRIBUTIONS OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY DESORBED MOLECULES, Physical review letters, 72(8), 1994, pp. 1295-1298
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
72
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1295 - 1298
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)72:8<1295:RASDOP>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A simple impulsive model for rotational excitation in photodesorption, combined with a two-level model Hamiltonian to describe hybridization of spin-orbit states, is found to explain the final state rotational and spin-orbit distributions of most photodesorption systems studied.