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SUBMITTER: Khodorkovsky Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510972 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150710
Recently, femtosecond laser techniques have been developed that are capable of bringing gas molecules to extremely fast rotation in a very short time, while keeping their translational motion relatively slow. Here we study collisional equilibration dynamics of this new state of molecular gases. We show that the route to equilibrium starts with a metastable 'gyroscopic stage' in the course of which the molecules maintain their fast rotation and orientation of the angular momentum through many col ...[more]