Lemeshko group Publications

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The angulon quasiparticle

X. Li, G. Bighin, E. Yakaboylu, M. Lemeshko
Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon
arXiv:1810.10302 (2018).
Contribution to the special issue of Molecular Physics dedicated to Nimrod Moiseyev’s 70th birthday.

E. Yakaboylu, B. Midya, A. Deuchert, N. Leopold, M. Lemeshko
Theory of the Rotating Polaron: Spectrum and Self-Localization
arXiv:1809.01204 (2018)

E. Yakaboylu, M. Shkolnikov, M. Lemeshko
Quantum groups as hidden symmetries of quantum impurities
Phys. Rev. Lett., in press (2018), arXiv:1809.00222

G. Bighin, T. V. Tscherbul, M. Lemeshko
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to angular momentum in quantum many-particle systems,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165301 (2018); arXiv:1803.07990

J. H. Mentink, M. I. Katsnelson, M. Lemeshko
Quantum many-body dynamics of the Einstein-de Haas effect,
arXiv:1802.01638 (2018)

E. Yakaboylu, M. Lemeshko
Anyonic statistics of quantum impurities in two dimensions,
Phys. Rev. B 98, 045402 (2018), arXiv:1712.00308

W. Rzadkowski, M. Lemeshko
Effect of a magnetic field on molecule-solvent angular momentum transfer
J. Chem. Phys. 148, 104307 (2018), arXiv:1711.09904

E. Yakaboylu, A. Deuchert, M. Lemeshko
Emergence of non-abelian magnetic monopoles in a quantum impurity problem,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 235301 (2017), arXiv:1705.05162

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I. N. Cherepanov, M. Lemeshko
Fingerprints of angulon instabilities in the spectra of matrix-isolated molecules,
Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 035602 (2017), arXiv:1705.09220

B. Shepperson, A. S. Chatterley, A. A. Søndergaard, L. Christiansen, M. Lemeshko, H. Stapelfeldt
Strongly aligned molecules inside helium droplets in the near-adiabatic regime,
J. Chem. Phys. 147, 013946 (2017); arXiv:1704.03684

Selected as an AIP highlight:
Helium Droplets Offer New Precision to Single-molecule Laser Measurement

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G. Bighin, M. Lemeshko
Diagrammatic approach to orbital quantum impurities interacting with a many-particle environment,
Phys. Rev. B 96, 085410 (2017), arXiv:1704.02616
Editor’s suggestion

B. Shepperson, A. A. Søndergaard, L. Christiansen, J. Kaczmarczyk, R. E. Zillich, M. Lemeshko,
H. Stapelfeldt
Laser-induced rotation of iodine molecules in He-nanodroplets: revivals and breaking-free,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 203203 (2017); arXiv:1702.01977

X. Li, R. Seiringer, M. Lemeshko
Angular self-localization of impurities rotating in a bosonic bath,
Phys. Rev. A 95, 033608 (2017), arXiv:1610.04908

M. Lemeshko
Quasiparticle approach to molecules interacting with quantum solvents,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095301 (2017), arXiv:1610.01604

Highlighted as a Physics Viewpoint: A new angle on quantum impurities by Yulia Shchadilova

Highlighted in APS news: Welcome the angulons, April 2017, p.6

Highlighted by Physics World: Meet the ‘angulon,’ a new quasiparticle found in superfluid helium by Edwin Cartlidge

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E. Yakaboylu, M. Lemeshko
Anomalous screening of quantum impurities by a neutral environment,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085302 (2017), arXiv:1612.02820

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E. S. Redchenko, M. Lemeshko
Libration of strongly-oriented polar molecules inside a superfluid,
Chem. Phys. Chem 17, 3649 (2016), arXiv:1609.08161
Selected as a ‘Very Important Paper’

B. Midya, M. Tomza, R. Schmidt, M. Lemeshko
Rotation of cold molecular ions inside a Bose-Einstein condensate,
Phys. Rev. A 94, 041601 (2016) (Rapid Communications), arXiv:1607.06092

M. Lemeshko, R. Schmidt
Molecular impurities interacting with a many-particle environment: from ultracold gases to helium
nanodroplets, book chapter in “Cold Chemistry: Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero,” edited by A. Osterwalder and O. Dulieu, Royal Society of Chemistry (2017)
arXiv:1703.06753

R. Schmidt, M. Lemeshko
Deformation of a quantum many-particle system by a rotating impurity,
Phys. Rev. X 6, 011012 (2016), arXiv:1507.03987

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R. Schmidt, M. Lemeshko
Rotation of quantum impurities in the presence of a many-body environment,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203001 (2015), arxiv:1502.03447
Editor’s suggestion

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Dissipative Preparation of Few- and Many-body Quantum States

J. Kaczmarczyk, H. Weimer, M. Lemeshko
Dissipative Preparation of Antiferromagnetic Order in the Fermi-Hubbard Model
New. J. Phys. 18, 093042 (2016), arXiv:1601.00646

C. Jochum
“Dissipative Few-Body Quantum Systems”
M.Sc. Thesis (2016)

M. Lemeshko, H. Weimer
Dissipative binding of atoms by non-conservative forces,
Nature Communications 4, 2230 (2013), arXiv:1211.4035

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J. Otterbach, M. Lemeshko
Dissipative Preparation of Spatial Order in Rydberg-Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 070401 (2014), arXiv:1308.5905

M. Lemeshko
Manipulating scattering of ultracold atoms with light-induced dissipation
Associate Editor’s inaugural article for Frontiers in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
Front. Physics 1, 17 (2013), arXiv:1307.8129

Many-body Physics of Quadrupolar Quantum Gases

S. G. Bhongale, L. Mathey, E. Zhao, S. F. Yelin, M. Lemeshko
Quantum phases of quadrupolar Fermi gases in optical lattices,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 155301 (2013), arXiv:1211.3317

M. Lahrz, M. Lemeshko, K. Sengstock, C. Becker, L. Mathey
Detecting quadrupole interactions in ultracold Fermi gases,
Phys. Rev. A 89, 043616 (2014), arXiv:1402.0873

M. Lahrz, M. Lemeshko, L. Mathey
Exotic roton excitations in quadrupolar Bose-Einstein condensates
New. J. Phys. 17, 045005 (2015), arXiv:1412.8472 (2014)

Many-body Physics with Dipoles

C. Hubert, Y. Baruchi, Y. Mazuz-Harpaz, K. Cohen, K. Biermann, M. Lemeshko, K. West, L. Pfeiffer, R. Rapaport, P. Santos.
Attractive dipolar coupling between stacked exciton fluids
arXiv:1807.11238 (2018)

E. G. C. P. van Loon, M. I. Katsnelson, L. Chomaz, M. Lemeshko.
Interaction-driven Lifshitz transition with dipolar fermions in optical lattices
Phys. Rev. B 93, 195145 (2016); arXiv:1603.09358

E. G. C. P. van Loon, M. I. Katsnelson, M. Lemeshko.
Ultralong-range order in the Fermi-Hubbard model with long-range interactions
Phys. Rev. B 92, 081106 (Rapid Comm.) (2015), arXiv:1506.06007

M. Lemeshko, R. V. Krems, H. Weimer.
Nonadiabatic preparation of spin crystals with ultracold polar molecules,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 035301 (2012), arXiv:1203.0010

M. Lemeshko, N. Y. Yao, A. V. Gorshkov, H. Weimer, S. D. Bennett, T. Momose, S. Gopalakrishnan
Controllable quantum spin glasses with magnetic impurities embedded in quantum solids,
Phys. Rev. B 88, 014426 (2013), arXiv:1307.1130

Manipulation of Molecules with Electromagnetic Fields

Ch. P. Koch, M. Lemeshko, D. Sugny
Quantum control of molecular rotation
arXiv:1810.11338 (2018)
Submitted to Rev. Mod. Phys.

M. Lemeshko, R. V. Krems, J. M. Doyle, S. Kais
Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields
Review article for the special issue on molecules in fields that we edited,
Molecular Physics 111, 1648 (2013), arXiv:1306.0912

M. Lemeshko
Shaping interactions between polar molecules with far-off-resonant light,
Phys. Rev. A (Rapid Comm.) 83, 051402 (2011), arXiv: 1104.1046

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Interaction between polar molecules subject to a far-off-resonant optical field: Entangled dipoles up- or down-holding each other,
Molecular Physics 110, 1873 (2012), arXiv:1108.4583

R. Aganoglu, M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich, R. González-Férez, C. P. Koch
Controlling a diatomic shape resonance with non-resonant light,
arXiv:1105.0761 (2011)

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Fine-tuning molecular energy levels by nonresonant laser pulses,
J. Phys. Chem. A 114, 9848 (2010), arXiv: 1004.1742

Molecular Supersymmetry

M. Lemeshko, M. Mustafa, S.Kais, B. Friedrich
Supersymmetry identifies molecular Stark states whose eigenproperties can be obtained analytically,
New. J. Phys. 13, 063036 (2011), arXiv: 1106.4402

M. Lemeshko, M. Mustafa, S.Kais, B. Friedrich
Supersymmetric factorization yields exact solutions to the molecular Stark effect problem for “stretched” states,
Phys. Rev. A 83, 043415 (2011), arXiv: 1105.5262

Dynamics and Stereodynamics of Molecular Collisions

M. Lemeshko, P. G. Jambrina, M. P. de Miranda, B. Friedrich
When diffraction rules the stereodynamics of rotationally inelastic collisions,
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 161102 (2010), arXiv: 1002.1572
AIP Highlight

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
An analytic model of the stereodynamics of rotationally inelastic molecular collisions,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 12, 1038 (2010); arXiv: 0910.0952

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
A model analysis of rotationally inelastic $$Ar+H_2O$$ scattering in an electric field,
J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 15055-15063 (2009); arXiv: 0906.0443

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Multiple scattering of matter waves: an analytic model of the refractive index for atomic and molecular gases,
Phys. Rev. A 82, 022711 (2010), arXiv: 1003.0854

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
An analytic model of rotationally inelastic collisions of polar molecules in electric fields,
J. Chem. Phys. 129, 024301 (2008); arXiv: 0804.3318

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Collisions of paramagnetic molecules in magnetic fields: an analytic model based on Fraunhofer diffraction of matter waves,
Phys. Rev. A 79, 012718 (2009), arXiv: 0809.3331

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
The effect of a nonresonant radiative field on low-energy rotationally inelastic $$Na^+ + N_2$$ collisions,
Int. J. Mass. Spec. 280, 19 (2009), arXiv: 0804.48459

Molecular Spectroscopy

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Probing weakly bound molecules with nonresonant light,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 053003 (2009), arXiv: 0903.0811

S. V. Alyabyshev, M. Lemeshko, R. V. Krems.
Sensitive imaging of electromagnetic fields with paramagnetic polar molecules,
Phys. Rev. A 86, 013409 (2012), arXiv:1202.1857

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Rotational and rotationless states of weakly bound molecules,
Phys. Rev. A 79, 050501(R) (2009), arXiv: 0904.0567

M. Lemeshko, B. Friedrich
Rotational structure of weakly bound molecular ions,
J. At. Mol. Sci. 1, 39 (2010), arXiv: 0910.5743

A. Ehresmann, L. Werner, S. Klumpp, Ph. V. Demekhin, M. P. Lemeshko, V. L. Sukhorukov, K.-H. Schartner, H. Schmoranzer
Predissociation of the $$N^+_2 (C^2\Sigma^+_u)$$ state observed via $$C^2\Sigma^+_u \to X^2\Sigma^+_g$$ fluorescence after $$1s^{-1}\pi^\ast$$ excitation of $$N_2$$ molecule,
J. Phys. B.: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, L119-L126 (2006)

A. Ehresmann, L. Werner, S. Klumpp, S. Lucht, H. Schmoranzer, S. Mickat, R. Shill, K.-H. Schartner, Ph. V. Demekhin, M. P. Lemeshko, V. L. Sukhorukov
Studying the fluorescence excited via the $$1s^{-1}\pi^\ast$$ resonance,
J. Phys. B.: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 283-304 (2006)

G. S. Pokrovski, J. Roux, J.-L. Hazemann, A. Yu. Borisova, A. A. Gonchar, M. P. Lemeshko
In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurement of vapor-brine fractionation of antimony at hydrothermal conditions,
Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 667 (2008)

X-ray Spectroscopy of Solid-State Systems (Experiment)

R. V. Vedrinskii, V. L. Kraizman, M. P. Lemeshko, E. S. Nazarenko, A. A. Novakovich, L. A. Reznichenko, V. N. Fokin, V. A. Shuvaeva
Local atomic structure of niobates and titanates from X-ray absorption spectroscopic data,
Physics of the Solid State, 51, 1394 (2009)

M. P. Lemeshko, E. S. Nazarenko, A. A. Gonchar, L. A. Reznichenko, A. A. Novakovich, O. Mathon, Y. Joly, R. V. Vedrinskii
XAFS studies of the local atomic structure of the lead-free piezoelectric ceramics $$K_x Na_{1-x} Nb O_3$$ over the temperature range 10-1023 K,
Phys. Rev. B. 76, 134106 (2007)

M. P. Lemeshko, E. S. Nazarenko, A. A. Gonchar, L. A. Reznichenko, O. Mathon, Y. Joly, R. V. Vedrinskii
Phase transitions in lead-free piezoelectric ceramics: study of local atomic structure,
Europhys. Lett. 77, 26003 (2007)

R. V. Vedrinskii, E. S. Nazarenko, M. P. Lemeshko, V. Nassif, O. Proux, A. A. Novakovich, Y. Joly
Temperature dependent XAFS studies of local atomic structure for the perovskite-type zirconates,
Phys. Rev. B 73, 134109 (2006)