Mapping wave packet bifurcation at a conical intersection in CH3I by attosecond XUV transient absorption spectroscopy
Abstract
Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption spectroscopy has emerged as a sensitive tool for mapping the real-time structural and electronic evolution of molecules. Here, attosecond XUV transient absorption is used to track dynamics in the A-band of methyl iodide (CH3I). Gaseous CH3I molecules are excited to the A-band by a UV pump (277 nm, ~20 fs) and probed by attosecond XUV pulses targeting iodine I(4d) core-to-valence transitions. Owing to the excellent temporal resolution of the technique, passage through a conical intersection is mapped through spectral signatures of nonadiabatic wave packet bifurcation observed to occur at 15 ± 4 fs following UV photoexcitation. The observed XUV signatures and time dynamics are in agreement with previous simulations [H. Wang, M. Odelius, and D. Prendergast, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 124106 (2019)]. Furthermore, due to the short duration of the UV pump pulse, coherent vibrational motion in the CH3I ground state along the C-I stretch mode (538 ± 7 cm-1) launched by resonant impulsive stimulated Raman scattering and dynamics in multiphoton excited states of CH3I are also detected.
- Authors:
-
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1840946
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1788285
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 154; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Quantum chemical dynamics; Photodissocation; Raman scattering; Spin-orbit interaction; XUV transient absorption spectroscopy; Photochemistry
Citation Formats
Chang, Kristina F., Wang, Han, Poullain, Sonia M., Prendergast, David, Neumark, Daniel M., and Leone, Stephen R. Mapping wave packet bifurcation at a conical intersection in CH3I by attosecond XUV transient absorption spectroscopy. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1063/5.0056299.
Chang, Kristina F., Wang, Han, Poullain, Sonia M., Prendergast, David, Neumark, Daniel M., & Leone, Stephen R. Mapping wave packet bifurcation at a conical intersection in CH3I by attosecond XUV transient absorption spectroscopy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056299
Chang, Kristina F., Wang, Han, Poullain, Sonia M., Prendergast, David, Neumark, Daniel M., and Leone, Stephen R. Tue .
"Mapping wave packet bifurcation at a conical intersection in CH3I by attosecond XUV transient absorption spectroscopy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056299. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1840946.
@article{osti_1840946,
title = {Mapping wave packet bifurcation at a conical intersection in CH3I by attosecond XUV transient absorption spectroscopy},
author = {Chang, Kristina F. and Wang, Han and Poullain, Sonia M. and Prendergast, David and Neumark, Daniel M. and Leone, Stephen R.},
abstractNote = {Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption spectroscopy has emerged as a sensitive tool for mapping the real-time structural and electronic evolution of molecules. Here, attosecond XUV transient absorption is used to track dynamics in the A-band of methyl iodide (CH3I). Gaseous CH3I molecules are excited to the A-band by a UV pump (277 nm, ~20 fs) and probed by attosecond XUV pulses targeting iodine I(4d) core-to-valence transitions. Owing to the excellent temporal resolution of the technique, passage through a conical intersection is mapped through spectral signatures of nonadiabatic wave packet bifurcation observed to occur at 15 ± 4 fs following UV photoexcitation. The observed XUV signatures and time dynamics are in agreement with previous simulations [H. Wang, M. Odelius, and D. Prendergast, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 124106 (2019)]. Furthermore, due to the short duration of the UV pump pulse, coherent vibrational motion in the CH3I ground state along the C-I stretch mode (538 ± 7 cm-1) launched by resonant impulsive stimulated Raman scattering and dynamics in multiphoton excited states of CH3I are also detected.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0056299},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 23,
volume = 154,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
Works referenced in this record:
An ab initio study of the CH3I photodissociation. I. Potential energy surfaces
journal, June 2007
- Alekseyev, Aleksey B.; Liebermann, Heinz-Peter; Buenker, Robert J.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 23
Disentangling conical intersection and coherent molecular dynamics in methyl bromide with attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy
journal, July 2019
- Timmers, Henry; Zhu, Xiaolei; Li, Zheng
- Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1
Structural dynamics effects on the ultrafast chemical bond cleavage of a photodissociation reaction
journal, January 2014
- Corrales, María E.; Loriot, Vincent; Balerdi, Garikoitz
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 16, Issue 19
Impulsive excitation of coherent vibrational motion ground surface dynamics induced by intense short pulses
journal, November 1994
- Banin, Uri; Bartana, Allon; Ruhman, Sanford
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 101, Issue 10
Coulomb Explosion Imaging for the Visualization of a Conical Intersection
journal, December 2018
- Corrales, M. E.; González-Vázquez, J.; de Nalda, R.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 2
Vibrational energy distribution of the CH 3 radical photodissociated from CH 3 I
journal, October 1980
- Shapiro, M.; Bersohn, R.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 73, Issue 8
A combined multi-reference pump-probe simulation method with application to XUV signatures of ultrafast methyl iodide photodissociation
journal, September 2019
- Wang, Han; Odelius, Michael; Prendergast, David
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 12
Photofragmentation of CH 3 I: Vibrational distribution of the CH 3 fragment
journal, October 1981
- Sparks, R. K.; Shobatake, K.; Carlson, L. R.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 75, Issue 8
The absorption spectrum of CH 3 I in the extreme VUV
journal, May 1982
- O'Sullivan, G.
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Vol. 15, Issue 9
Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy in the impulsive limit
journal, January 1994
- Dhar, Lisa; Rogers, John A.; Nelson, Keith A.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 94, Issue 1
Direct mapping of curve-crossing dynamics in IBr by attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy
journal, July 2019
- Kobayashi, Yuki; Chang, Kristina F.; Zeng, Tao
- Science, Vol. 365, Issue 6448
Two-photon VUV laser-induced fluorescence detection of I★(2P12) and I(2P12) from alkyl iodide photodissociation at 248 nm
journal, March 1987
- Godwin, F. G.; Gorry, P. A.; Hughes, P. M.
- Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 135, Issue 1-2
Impulsive stimulated scattering: General importance in femtosecond laser pulse interactions with matter, and spectroscopic applications
journal, December 1985
- Yan, Yong‐Xin; Gamble, Edward B.; Nelson, Keith A.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 11
Revealing electronic state-switching at conical intersections in alkyl iodides by ultrafast XUV transient absorption spectroscopy
journal, August 2020
- Chang, Kristina F.; Reduzzi, Maurizio; Wang, Han
- Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Femtosecond x-ray spectroscopy of an electrocyclic ring-opening reaction
journal, April 2017
- Attar, Andrew R.; Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Pemmaraju, C. D.
- Science, Vol. 356, Issue 6333
Two‐dimensional imaging of state‐selected photodissociation products detected by multiphoton ionization
journal, July 1987
- Chandler, David W.; Houston, Paul L.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 87, Issue 2
Energy partitioning following photodissociation of methyl iodide in the A band: A velocity mapping study
journal, January 1999
- Eppink, A. T. J. B.; Parker, D. H.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 2
Excited fragments from excited molecules: energy partitioning in the photodissociation of alkyl iodides
journal, January 1972
- Riley, Stephen J.; Wilson, Kent R.
- Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society, Vol. 53
Ab initio surface hopping excited‐state molecular dynamics approach on the basis of spin–orbit coupled states: An application to the A‐band photodissociation of CH 3 I
journal, November 2018
- Kamiya, Muneaki; Taketsugu, Tetsuya
- Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 40, Issue 2
Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Acetylacetone via Femtosecond X-ray Transient Absorption at the Carbon K-Edge
journal, November 2017
- Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Pemmaraju, Chaitanya Das; Schnorr, Kirsten
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 46
Probing the Dynamics of Rydberg and Valence States of Molecular Nitrogen with Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, February 2016
- Warrick, Erika R.; Cao, Wei; Neumark, Daniel M.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 120, Issue 19
Intensities in Molecular Electronic Spectra X. Calculations on Mixed‐Halogen, Hydrogen Halide, Alkyl Halide, and Hydroxyl Spectra
journal, May 1940
- Mulliken, Robert S.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 8, Issue 5
Communication: XUV transient absorption spectroscopy of iodomethane and iodobenzene photodissociation
journal, July 2016
- Drescher, L.; Galbraith, M. C. E.; Reitsma, G.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 145, Issue 1
Quantum nonadiabatic effects in the photodissociation of vibrationally excited CH 3 I
journal, May 1991
- Guo, Hua; Lao, Kai Qin; Schatz, George C.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 94, Issue 10
Quantitative studies of the photoabsorption (4.5–488 eV) and photoionization (9–59.5 eV) of methyl iodide using dipole electron impact techniques
journal, June 1998
- Olney, Terry N.; Cooper, Glyn; Brion, C. E.
- Chemical Physics, Vol. 232, Issue 1-2
Magnetic circular dichroism spectra of the methyl halides. Resolution of the n → σ* continuum
journal, July 1975
- Gedanken, Aharon; Rowe, Michael D.
- Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 34, Issue 1
Molecular dynamics with electronic transitions
journal, July 1990
- Tully, John C.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 93, Issue 2
Elucidating the origins of multimode vibrational coherences of polyatomic molecules induced by intense laser fields
journal, September 2017
- Wei, Zhengrong; Li, Jialin; Wang, Lin
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Transition state region in the A-Band photodissociation of allyl iodide—A femtosecond extreme ultraviolet transient absorption study
journal, March 2016
- Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Attar, Andrew R.; Leone, Stephen R.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, Issue 12
Photodissociation of gas phase I3− using femtosecond photoelectron spectroscopy
journal, August 1999
- Zanni, Martin T.; Greenblatt, B. Jefferys; Davis, Alison V.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 111, Issue 7
Vibrational anharmonicity in CH 3 I: A joint local and normal mode study
journal, July 1989
- Duncan, J. L.; Ferguson, A. M.; Mathews, S.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 2
Femtosecond Real-Time Probing of Reactions. 23. Studies of Temporal, Velocity, Angular, and State Dynamics from Transition States to Final Products by Femtosecond-Resolved Mass Spectrometry
journal, June 1998
- Zhong, Dongping; Zewail, Ahmed H.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 102, Issue 23
Direct Observation of the Transition-State Region in the Photodissociation of CH 3 I by Femtosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
journal, December 2015
- Attar, Andrew R.; Bhattacherjee, Aditi; Leone, Stephen R.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, Issue 24