Over the last few decades, conical intersections (CoIns) have grown from theoretical
curiosities into common mechanistic features of photochemical reactions, whose function is …

Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

In traditional Raman spectroscopy, narrow-band light is irradiated on a sample, and its
inelastic scattering, ie, Raman scattering, is detected. The energy difference between the …

We present an experimental setup for recording vibrational coherences and thereby Raman
spectra of molecules in their ground and excited electronic states over the 50–3000 cm–1 …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

Carotenoids are essential light-harvesting pigments in natural photosynthesis. They absorb
in the blue–green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio …

Unveiling the nuclear motions of photoreceptor proteins in action is a crucial goal in protein
science in order to understand their elaborate mechanisms and how they achieve optimal …

We describe details of the setup for time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy
(TR-ISRS). In this method, snapshot molecular vibrational spectra of the photoreaction …

The soft character of organic materials leads to strong coupling between molecular, nuclear
and electronic dynamics. This coupling opens the way to influence charge transport in …

The motion of atoms is at the heart of any chemical or structural transformation in molecules
and materials. Upon activation of this motion by an external source, several (usually many) …