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Title: Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
  3. Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
  4. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
  6. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom). Blackett Lab.
  7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
  8. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  9. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
  10. KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, CA (United States)
  11. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  12. Stanford Univ., CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
  13. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States). J.R. Macdonald Lab.
  14. Stanford Univ., CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  15. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  16. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  17. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and James Franck Inst.
  18. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland); Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland). LUXS Lab. for Ultrafast X-ray Sciences
  19. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  20. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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Free-electron lasers provide a source of x-ray pulses short enough and intense enough to drive nonlinearities in molecular systems. Impulsive interactions driven by these x-ray pulses provide a way to create and probe valence electron motions with high temporal and spatial resolution. Observing these electronic motions is crucial to understand the role of electronic coherence in chemical processes. A simple nonlinear technique for probing electronic motion, impulsive stimulated x-ray Raman scattering (ISXRS), involves a single impulsive interaction to produce a coherent superposition of electronic states. We demonstrate electronic population transfer via ISXRS using broad bandwidth (5.5 eV full width at half maximum) attosecond x-ray pulses produced by the Linac Coherent Light Source. The impulsive excitation is resonantly enhanced by the oxygen 1s→2π^{*} resonance of nitric oxide (NO), and excited state neutral molecules are probed with a time-delayed UV laser pulse.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (SC-22.1); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-06CH11357; SC0012376; AC02-05CH11231; RTI2018-097355-A-I00; 2017-T1/IND-5432; EP/R019509/1; EP/I032517/1
OSTI ID:
1639100
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1670127; OSTI ID: 1768879
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 125, Issue 7; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 26 works
Citation information provided by
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