Molecular photodissociation dynamics revealed by Coulomb explosion imaging

SW Crane, JWL Lee, MNR Ashfold… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) methods are finding ever-growing use as a means of
exploring and distinguishing the static stereo-configurations of small quantum systems …

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 Coulomb explosion imaging of molecules and molecular clusters

X Li, X Yu, P Ma, X Zhao, C Wang, S Luo… - Chinese Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Taking an image of their structure and a movie of their dynamics of small quantum systems
have always been a dream of physicists and chemists. Laser-induced Coulomb explosion …

Coulomb explosion imaging of small polyatomic molecules with ultrashort x-ray pulses

X Li, A Rudenko, MS Schöffler, N Anders… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
Ultrashort x-ray pulses from free-electron lasers can efficiently charge up and trigger the full
fragmentation of molecules. By coincident detection of up to five ions resulting from rapid …

Disentangling sequential and concerted fragmentations of molecular polycations with covariant native frame analysis

JW McManus, T Walmsley, K Nagaya… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present results from an experimental ion imaging study into the fragmentation dynamics
of 1-iodopropane and 2-iodopropane following interaction with extreme ultraviolet intense …

X-ray induced Coulomb explosion imaging of transient excited-state structural rearrangements in CS2

J Unwin, F Allum, M Britton, I Gabalski… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Structural imaging of transient excited-state species is a key goal of molecular physics,
promising to unveil rich information about the dynamics underpinning photochemical …

Direct tracking of H2 roaming reaction in real time

D Mishra, AC LaForge, LM Gorman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Roaming is an unconventional type of molecular reaction where fragments, instead of
immediately dissociating, remain weakly bound due to long-range Coulombic interactions …

Strong-field-induced coulomb explosion imaging of tribromomethane

S Bhattacharyya, K Borne, F Ziaee… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Coulomb explosion of tribromomethane (bromoform, CHBr3) induced by 28 fs near-
infrared laser pulses is investigated by three-dimensional coincidence ion momentum …

Quantum contributions to Coulomb-explosion imaging revealed by trajectory-surface-hop** molecular dynamics

V Singh, C Cheng, T Weinacht, S Matsika - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We compare trajectory-surface-hop** (TSH) calculations of the dissociation of quadruply
charged formaldehyde molecules with basic classical calculations assuming Coulomb …

Ultrafast imaging of molecular dynamics using ultrafast low-frequency lasers, X-ray free electron lasers, and electron pulses

M Zhang, Z Guo, X Mi, Z Li, Y Liu - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The requirement of high space-time resolution and brightness is a great challenge for
imaging atomic motion and making molecular movies. Important breakthroughs in ultrabright …