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 …

Attochemistry: Is controlling electrons the future of photochemistry?

ICD Merritt, D Jacquemin, M Vacher - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlling matter with light has always been a great challenge, leading to the ever-
expanding field of photochemistry. In addition, since the first generation of light pulses of …

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 …

Jahn-Teller distortion and dissociation of CCl 4+ by transient X-ray spectroscopy simultaneously at the carbon K-and chlorine L-edge

AD Ross, D Hait, V Scutelnic, EA Haugen… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (XTAS) and theoretical calculations are used to
study CCl4+ prepared by 800 nm strong-field ionization. XTAS simultaneously probes atoms …

Recent advances in theoretical attosecond chemistry

A Ferté, M Vacher - 2022 - books.rsc.org
In 2001, the first attosecond pulses were generated. Their application to molecules gave
birth to the field of ''attosecond chemistry''or in short ''attochemistry''. The emergence of …

Electronic Coherences Excited by an Ultra Short Pulse Are Robust with Respect to Averaging over Randomly Oriented Molecules as Shown by Singular Value …

M Cardosa-Gutierrez, RD Levine… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report a methodology for averaging quantum photoexcitation vibronic dynamics over the
initial orientations of the molecules with respect to an ultrashort light pulse. We use singular …

Addressing three-body fragmentation of methane dication using “native frames”: evidence of internal excitation in fragments

J Rajput, D Garg, A Cassimi, X Fléchard… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The three body fragmentation of methane dication has been studied using the technique of
cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy. The process is initiated by impact of …

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 …

Unexplained dissociation pathways of two-body fragmentation of methane dication

J Rajput, D Garg, A Cassimi, A Méry… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The ion-induced fragmentation of CH 4 2+ into H+ and CH 3+ is studied using a cold target
recoil ion momentum spectroscopy in coincidence with the charge state of the post-collision …

Few-femtosecond isotope effect in polyatomic molecules ionized by extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulse trains

M Vacher, A Boyer, V Loriot, F Lépine… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Following ionization by an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulse train, a polyatomic
molecule can be promoted to more-than-one excited states of the residual ion. The ensuing …