Capturing chemistry in action with electrons: realization of atomically resolved reaction dynamics

AA Ischenko, PM Weber, RJD Miller - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
One of the grand challenges in chemistry has been to directly observe atomic motions
during chemical processes. The depiction of the nuclear configurations in space-time to …

Imaging molecular motion: femtosecond x-ray scattering of an electrocyclic chemical reaction

MP Minitti, JM Budarz, A Kirrander, JS Robinson… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Structural rearrangements within single molecules occur on ultrafast time scales. Many
aspects of molecular dynamics, such as the energy flow through excited states, have been …

Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation

B Stankus, H Yong, N Zotev, JM Ruddock… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The coherence and dephasing of vibrational motions of molecules constitute an integral part
of chemical dynamics, influence material properties and underpin schemes to control …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio quantum direct dynamics simulations of ultrafast photochemistry with Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest approach

DV Makhov, C Symonds, S Fernandez-Alberti… - Chemical Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest (MCE) method is a quantum dynamics technique
which allows treatment of a large number of quantum nuclear degrees of freedom. This …

Ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of 1, 3-cyclohexadiene using XMS-CASPT2 surface hopping

I Polyak, L Hutton, R Crespo-Otero… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A full-dimensional simulation of the photodissociation of 1, 3-cyclohexadiene in the manifold
of three electronic states was performed via nonadiabatic surface hopping dynamics using …

Time‐resolved x‐ray spectroscopy of nucleobases and their thionated analogs

D Mayer, F Lever, M Gühr - Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The photoinduced relaxation dynamics of nucleobases and their thionated analogs have
been investigated extensively over the past decades motivated by their crucial role in …

The contribution of Compton ionization to ultrafast x-ray scattering

KM Ziems, M Simmermacher, S Gräfe… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the role of Compton ionization in ultrafast non-resonant x-ray scattering using
a molecular model system, which includes the ionization continuum via an orthonormalized …

Electronic coherence in ultrafast X-ray scattering from molecular wave packets

M Simmermacher, NE Henriksen, KB Møller… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Simulations of nonresonant ultrafast x-ray scattering from a molecular wave packet in H 2
are used to examine and classify the components that contribute to the total scattering …

Roadmap on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics: I. Light–matter interaction

K Ueda, E Sokell, S Schippers, F Aumayr… - Journal of Physics B …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We publish three Roadmaps on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics in order to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ICPEAC conference. In Roadmap I, we focus on the …

Towards high-resolution X-ray scattering as a probe of electron correlation

AM Carrascosa, JP Coe, M Simmermacher… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray scattering cross sections are calculated using a range of increasingly correlated
methods: Hartree–Fock (HF), complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF), Monte …