A research team, affiliated with South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has discovered that when the rotational quantum states of non-polar molecules change under the influence of laser fields (non-resonant laser fields), so does their motion trajectories.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-adiabatically-aligned-molecules-non-resonant-optical.html