Abstract

A methodology that uses classical mechanics to simulate low-resolution, stimulated-emission pumping spectra and to extract their dynamical information is presented. The peaks in the spectra are associated with partially or totally decoupled regions of phase space in which a particular kind of motion takes place. If the classical dynamics is chaotic, the decoupling is only partial and the motion has a lifetime that corresponds to the widths of the peaks in the low-resolution spectra. The methodology is applied to the sodium trimer and to the HCN/HNC system.

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