Laser-induced, blackbody-radiation-assisted rovibrational cooling of symmetric-top molecular ions: NH3+ and ND3+
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| author | Sinha, Archisman Heazlewood, Brianna R. Deb, Nabanita |
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| contents | Quantum-state preparation of molecular ions is a prerequisite for precision spectroscopy and controlled studies of cold ion-molecule dynamics. While such control has been extensively developed for diatomic ions and proposed for linear polyatomic ions, corresponding strategies for symmetric-top molecular ions remain largely unexplored. We present a theoretical investigation of blackbody-radiation (BBR)-assisted rovibrational dynamics and laser cooling in the symmetric-top ions NH3+ and ND3+, prepared in specific ro-vibrational states by resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of the neutral precursor. State-resolved radiative lifetimes and equilibration times are computed, revealing that vibrationally excited states decay rapidly, while the ground-state redistribution is dominated by slow BBR-driven ro-vibrational transitions as pure rotational transitions are forbidden in the non-polar NH3+ and ND3+ ions. BBR-assisted laser pumping via the nu2 umbrella-bending mode efficiently cools rotational levels within fixed K manifolds; however, Delta K = 0 selection rules induce a bottleneck, limiting access to the absolute rovibrational ground state for some initially prepared states. Isotopic substitution to ND3+ further slows dynamics due to reduced transition dipoles. At room temperature, these cooling schemes yield more than 90% and 85% of the population in selected rovibrational states of the NH3+ and ND3+ ions, respectively. In contrast, at temperatures below 100 K, BBR-induced redistribution is strongly suppressed for ions initially produced in the rovibrational ground state (v=0, J, K), effectively freezing the population for extended storage times. In comparison, vibrationally excited states exhibit lifetimes on the order of a few milliseconds, independent of the temperature of the BBR field. |
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| spellingShingle | Laser-induced, blackbody-radiation-assisted rovibrational cooling of symmetric-top molecular ions: NH3+ and ND3+ Sinha, Archisman Heazlewood, Brianna R. Deb, Nabanita Chemical Physics Quantum-state preparation of molecular ions is a prerequisite for precision spectroscopy and controlled studies of cold ion-molecule dynamics. While such control has been extensively developed for diatomic ions and proposed for linear polyatomic ions, corresponding strategies for symmetric-top molecular ions remain largely unexplored. We present a theoretical investigation of blackbody-radiation (BBR)-assisted rovibrational dynamics and laser cooling in the symmetric-top ions NH3+ and ND3+, prepared in specific ro-vibrational states by resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of the neutral precursor. State-resolved radiative lifetimes and equilibration times are computed, revealing that vibrationally excited states decay rapidly, while the ground-state redistribution is dominated by slow BBR-driven ro-vibrational transitions as pure rotational transitions are forbidden in the non-polar NH3+ and ND3+ ions. BBR-assisted laser pumping via the nu2 umbrella-bending mode efficiently cools rotational levels within fixed K manifolds; however, Delta K = 0 selection rules induce a bottleneck, limiting access to the absolute rovibrational ground state for some initially prepared states. Isotopic substitution to ND3+ further slows dynamics due to reduced transition dipoles. At room temperature, these cooling schemes yield more than 90% and 85% of the population in selected rovibrational states of the NH3+ and ND3+ ions, respectively. In contrast, at temperatures below 100 K, BBR-induced redistribution is strongly suppressed for ions initially produced in the rovibrational ground state (v=0, J, K), effectively freezing the population for extended storage times. In comparison, vibrationally excited states exhibit lifetimes on the order of a few milliseconds, independent of the temperature of the BBR field. |
| title | Laser-induced, blackbody-radiation-assisted rovibrational cooling of symmetric-top molecular ions: NH3+ and ND3+ |
| topic | Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00548 |