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Title: 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:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
  4. 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.
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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}
}

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