Stereochemical properties of the OH molecule in combined electric and magnetic fields: analytic results

TL;DR

This paper derives exact analytical expressions for the stereochemical properties of the ultracold ground state OH molecule in combined electric and magnetic fields, facilitating easier analysis compared to numerical methods.

Contribution

It provides the first analytic solutions for the stereochemical properties of OH in combined fields, improving understanding and computational efficiency.

Findings

Analytic expressions match numerical results well

Compact formulas for simple field geometries

Enables exploration of new parameter regimes

Abstract

The stereochemical properties of the ultracold ground state OH molecule in the presence of electric and magnetic fields are currently of considerable interest. For example, relevant quantities such as molecular alignment and orientation, calculated numerically by using large basis sets, have lately appeared in the literature. In this work, based on our recent exact solution to an effective eight-dimensional matrix Hamiltonian for the molecular ground state, we present analytic expressions for the stereochemical properties of OH. Our results require the solution of algebraic equations only, agree well with the aforementioned fully numerical calculations, provide compact expressions for simple field geometries, allow ready access to relatively unexplored parameter space, and yield straightforwardly higher moments of the molecular axis distribution.