title: Dissipation of alignment in CO2 gas: A comparison between ab initio predictions and experiments.
abstract: We present comparisons between measurements and ab initio calculations of the dissipation of the nonadiabatic laser-induced alignment in pure CO2 and CO2-He gas mixtures. The experiments were made for pressures between 2 and 20 bars at 295 K by using short non-resonant linearly polarized laser pulses for alignment and probe. The calculations are carried, free of any adjusted parameter, using refined intermolecular potentials and a requantized Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations approach presented previously but not yet confronted to experiments. The results demonstrate that the model accurately reproduces the decays with time of both the transient revivals and "permanent" component of the alignment. The significant differences observed between the behaviors resulting from CO2-CO2 and CO2-He collisions are also well predicted by the model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques CNRS (UMR 7583), Universités Paris Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institut P.-S. Laplace Université Paris Est Créteil, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France. jean-michel.hartmann@lisa.u-pec.fr
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