Progress on table-top isolated attosecond light sources

K Midorikawa - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Research on isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) based on high-order harmonic generation
changed substantially around 2010. Before then, the Ti: sapphire laser was the de facto …

Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

Attosecond-pump attosecond-probe x-ray spectroscopy of liquid water

S Li, L Lu, S Bhattacharyya, C Pearce, K Li… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Attosecond-pump/attosecond-probe experiments have long been sought as the most
straightforward method for observing electron dynamics in real time. Although there has …

Attosecond core-level absorption spectroscopy reveals the electronic and nuclear dynamics of molecular ring opening

S Severino, KM Ziems, M Reduzzi, A Summers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We show that attosecond core-level spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating
molecular dynamics due to its combined attosecond temporal resolution and the broad …

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

M Chergui, M Beye, S Mukamel, C Svetina… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of
extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense …

How radical are “radical” photocatalysts? A closed-shell Meisenheimer complex is identified as a super-reducing photoreagent

AJ Rieth, MI Gonzalez, B Kudisch, M Nava… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Super-reducing excited states have the potential to activate strong bonds, leading to
unprecedented photoreactivity. Excited states of radical anions, accessed via reduction of a …

From a one-mode to a multi-mode understanding of conical intersection mediated ultrafast organic photochemical reactions

Y Boeije, M Olivucci - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last few decades, conical intersections (CoIns) have grown from theoretical
curiosities into common mechanistic features of photochemical reactions, whose function is …

Femtosecond symmetry breaking and coherent relaxation of methane cations via x-ray spectroscopy

E Ridente, D Hait, EA Haugen, AD Ross, DM Neumark… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Understanding the relaxation pathways of photoexcited molecules is essential to gain
atomistic-level insight into photochemistry. We performed a time-resolved study of ultrafast …

Femtosecond proton transfer in urea solutions probed by X-ray spectroscopy

Z Yin, YP Chang, T Balčiūnas, Y Shakya, A Djorović… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Proton transfer is one of the most fundamental events in aqueous-phase chemistry and an
emblematic case of coupled ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics,. Disentangling …

The excited-state dynamics of the radical anions of cyanoanthracenes

JS Beckwith, A Aster, E Vauthey - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The radical anion of 9, 10-dicyanoanthracene (DCA) has been suggested to be a promising
chromophore for photoredox chemistry, due to its nanosecond excited-state lifetime …