Ultrafast solvent-to-solvent and solvent-to-solute energy transfer driven by single-cycle THz electric fields
Terahertz Emitters, Receivers, and Applications XII(2021)
摘要
In this work, we perform Terahertz (THz) Kerr Effect (TKE) experiments on several types of molecular liquids with dissolved iodide anions. We couple high intensity single-cycle THz pulses to the re-orientational motions of the aforementioned liquids and observe a subsequent energy transfer to the translational degrees of freedom of the ionic solutes manifesting as an increase of their translational kinetic energy. Surprisingly, this solvent-to-solute energy transfer is found to scale significantly with the particular intermolecular interactions of the liquids, being more dramatic when a hydrogen-bonding network is present. Our observations set the basis for future coherent control of chemical reactions in the liquid state, by means of THz radiation.
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