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 …

Infrared spectra of carbocations and CH 4+ in helium

JA Davies, S Yang, AM Ellis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Infrared (IR) spectra of several hydrocarbon cations are reported, namely CH3+, CH4+,
CH5+, CH5+ (CH4) and C2H5+. The spectra were generated from weakly-bound helium …

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 extracting subfemtosecond data from femtosecond quantum dynamics calculations: the methane cation

T Mondal, AJC Varandas - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Motivated by recent measurements of the subfemtosecond structural rearrangement in the
methane cation using high-harmonic generation technology, here, we attempt an ab initio …

Helium Nanodroplet Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of CH4+ and 13CH3+

A Singh, SH Allison, AAA Azhagesan… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this work, CH4+ cations were formed in helium droplets and investigated with infrared
laser spectroscopy. The observed infrared bands are assigned to the C2v isomer of the …

Structural evolution of the methane cation in subfemtosecond photodynamics

T Mondal, AJC Varandas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
An ab initio quantum dynamics study has been performed to explore the structural
rearrangement of ground state CH 4+ in subfemtosecond resolved photodynamics. The …

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 …

Ab initio computation of energy deposition during electron ionization of molecules

KK Irikura - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2017 - ACS Publications
The dissociative ionization of molecules under electron impact forms the basis for analytical
mass spectrometry of volatile compounds. It is also important in other situations, notably …

On the higher-order T 2⊗(e+ t 2) Jahn–Teller coupling effects in the photodetachment spectrum of the alanate anion (AlH 4−)

T Mondal - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The static and dynamic aspects of the T2⊗(e+ t2) Jahn–Teller coupling effects in the 2T2
electronic state of the AlH4 radical are investigated theoretically by probing the first …

High-resolution (e, 2e+ ion) study of electron-impact ionization and fragmentation of methane

X Ren, T Pflüger, M Weyland, WY Baek… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The ionization and fragmentation of methane induced by low-energy (E 0= 66 eV) electron-
impact is investigated using a reaction microscope. The momentum vectors of all three …