title: Theoretical design of an aromatic hydrocarbon rotor driven by a circularly polarized electric field.
abstract: An aromatic hydrocarbon rotor without functional groups is theoretically designed. Such a molecular rotor is free from long-range electrostatic interactions. Induced dipole interactions are the rotor-driving forces under a nonresonant excitation condition. As an example, a molecular rotor with a condensed aromatic ring, a pentacene moiety mounted on a phenyl-acetylene axle that is driven by a circularly polarized electric field is considered. Results of simulations of the quantum dynamics of a rotor that take into account short-range rotor-bath interactions are presented by numerically solving the density matrix equations of the rotational motions.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
authors: Masahiro
authors: M
authors: Yamaki
authors: Kunihito
authors: K
authors: Hoki
authors: Takato
authors: T
authors: Teranishi
authors: Wilfredo Credo
authors: WC
authors: Chung
authors: Fabio
authors: F
authors: Pichierri
authors: Hirohiko
authors: H
authors: Kono
authors: Yuichi
authors: Y
authors: Fujimura