Attosecond spectroscopy for filming the ultrafast movies of atoms, molecules and solids

L He, X Zhu, W Cao, P Lan, P Lu - Chinese Physics B, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Three decades ago, a highly nonlinear nonpertubative phenomenon, now well-known as
the high harmonic generation (HHG), was discovered when intense laser irradiates gaseous …

Influence of nuclear dynamics on molecular attosecond photoelectron interferometry

D Ertel, D Busto, I Makos, M Schmoll, J Benda… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy, the photoionization process occurring in a molecule due
to the absorption of a single photon can trigger an ultrafast nuclear motion in the cation …

Femtosecond symmetry breaking and coherent relaxation of methane cations via x-ray spectroscopy

E Ridente, D Hait, EA Haugen, AD Ross, DM Neumark… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Understanding the relaxation pathways of photoexcited molecules is essential to gain
atomistic-level insight into photochemistry. We performed a time-resolved study of ultrafast …

Ultrafast geometrical reorganization of a methane cation upon sudden ionization: an isotope effect on electronic non-equilibrium quantum dynamics

CEM Gonçalves, RD Levine, F Remacle - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ultrafast structural, Jahn–Teller (JT) driven, electronic coherence mediated quantum
dynamics in the CH4+ and CD4+ cations that follows sudden ionization using an XUV …

Ultrafast imaging of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a photoionized molecular system

M Li, M Zhang, O Vendrell, Z Guo, Q Zhu, X Gao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Jahn-Teller effect is an essential mechanism of spontaneous symmetry
breaking in molecular and solid state systems, and has far-reaching consequences in many …

Electronic coherences steer the strong isotope effect in the ultrafast Jahn–Teller structural rearrangement of methane cation upon tunnel ionization

M Blavier, K Komarova, CEM Gonçalves… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report on fully quantum electronic-nuclear dynamics following sudden ionization from
the neutral in the three lowest electronic states of the CH4+ and CD4+ cations. There is a …

General Formalism of Vibronic Hamiltonians for Tetrahedral and Octahedral Systems: Problems That Involve T, E States and t, e Vibrations

T Zeng, RJ Hickman, A Kadri… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We derive expansion formulas up to arbitrary order in vibrational coordinates for the
tetrahedral and octahedral vibronic Hamiltonians that involve T and E states, and t and e …

On the rearrangement and dissociation mechanism of SiH4+ in its triply-degenerate ground state

T Mondal, AJC Varandas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
An ab initio molecular orbital study has been performed to explore the structural
rearrangement and dissociation of SiH 4+ radical cation at the X ̃ 2 T 2 ground electronic …

[HTML][HTML] Few-femtosecond electronic and structural rearrangements of CH 4+ driven by the Jahn–Teller effect

KS Zinchenko, F Ardana-Lamas, VU Lanfaloni… - Structural …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The Jahn–Teller effect (JTE) is central to the understanding of the physical and chemical
properties of a broad variety of molecules and materials. Whereas the manifestations of the …

Full-dimensional treatment of short-time vibronic dynamics in a molecular high-order-harmonic-generation process in methane

S Patchkovskii, MS Schuurman - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We present derivation and implementation of the multiconfigurational strong-field
approximation with Gaussian nuclear wave packets (MC-SFA-GWP)—a version of the …