Stimulated emission pumping of acetylene: Evidence for quantum chaotic behavior near 27 900 cm−1 of excitation?
- 15 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 80 (6), 2298-2300
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.447006
Abstract
Clumps of narrowly spaced lines (∼10 lines per in a 2 wide clump) appear in the stimulated emission pumping spectrum of the acetylene state near 27 900 of vibrational excitation above the vibrationless level. All of the lines in a given clump arise from transitions into levels with the same lower state value. Thus, the fine structure within each clump is of a purely vibrational nature. Rotationally resolved and assigned spectra at such high vibrational excitation have not been previously reported for a polyatomic molecule. The unique qualities of these spectra make it possible for the first time to apply one of the suggested criteria of quantum chaos to a real molecular spectrum. Analysis of the spacings between adjacent lines in several of these clumps shows that they approximately follow a Wigner distribution rather than a Poisson distribution, a characteristic which is expected for chaotic behavior within the molecule.
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