Machine learning for electronically excited states of molecules

J Westermayr, P Marquetand - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electronically excited states of molecules are at the heart of photochemistry, photophysics,
as well as photobiology and also play a role in material science. Their theoretical description …

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy: the continuing evolution of a mature technique

MS Schuurman, V Blanchet - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) has become one of the most
widespread techniques for probing nonadiabatic dynamics in the excited electronic states of …

Differentiating three-dimensional molecular structures using laser-induced coulomb explosion imaging

HVS Lam, AS Venkatachalam, S Bhattacharyya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) with x-ray free electron lasers has recently been shown to
be a powerful method for obtaining detailed structural information of gas-phase planar ring …

Ultrafast electronic relaxation pathways of the molecular photoswitch quadricyclane

KD Borne, JC Cooper, MNR Ashfold, J Bachmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The light-induced ultrafast switching between molecular isomers norbornadiene and
quadricyclane can reversibly store and release a substantial amount of chemical energy …

Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction

JP Figueira Nunes, LM Ibele, S Pathak… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast
photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key …

Nonadiabatic coupling in trajectory surface hop**: How approximations impact excited-state reaction dynamics

ICD Merritt, D Jacquemin, M Vacher - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photochemical reactions are widely modeled using the popular trajectory surface hop**
(TSH) method, an affordable mixed quantum-classical approximation to the full quantum …

Ultrafast X-ray probes of elementary molecular events

D Keefer, SM Cavaletto, JR Rouxel… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Elementary events that determine photochemical outcomes and molecular functionalities
happen on the femtosecond and subfemtosecond timescales. Among the most ubiquitous …

Chemical bond reorganization in intramolecular proton transfer revealed by ultrafast X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Y Gu, H Yong, B Gu, S Mukamel - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Time-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (TR-XPS) is used in a simulation study to
monitor the excited state intramolecular proton transfer between oxygen and nitrogen atoms …

Time-resolved experiments on gas-phase atoms and molecules with XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers

D Rolles - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last 20 years, XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled a wide variety of
time-resolved experiments that have dramatically advanced our understanding of ultrafast …

Advanced quantum and semiclassical methods for simulating photoinduced molecular dynamics and spectroscopy

S Faraji, D Picconi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular‐level understanding of photoinduced processes is critically important for
breakthroughs in transformative technologies utilizing light, ranging from photomedicine to …