Directional properties of polar paramagnetic molecules subject to congruent electric, magnetic and optical fields

Abstract

We show that congruent electric, magnetic and non-resonant optical fields acting concurrently on a polar paramagnetic (and polarizable) molecule offer possibilities to both amplify and control the directionality of the ensuing molecular states that surpass those available in double-field combinations or in single fields alone. At the core of these triple-field effects is the lifting of the degeneracy of the projection quantum number M by the magnetic field superimposed on the optical field and a subsequent coupling of the members of the 'doubled' (for states with ≠ M 0) tunneling doublets due to the optical field by even a weak electrostatic field. 3 2 molecule in its electronic ground state) and, therefore, correspondingly larger magnetic dipole moments. The recently discovered LiHe van der Waals molecule [67, 68], a polar and paramagnetic halo species, would also benefit from the study of its OPEN ACCESS

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