Fig. 5: Effects of the molecular system size on the dynamics of the C=O bond potential energy at constant solute molecular number.

This plot is the same as Fig. 4 except for that the 13CO2 solute molecular number is fixed as 10 when the system size enlarges. Note that, when the system size is increased (or when the solute concentration is decreased), both the solvent and solute molecules are more heavily pumped under the same IR excitation of the LP. See text for details of this counter-intuitive feature.