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Umarov O, Csehi A, Badankó P, Halász GJ, Vibók Á. Light-induced photodissociation in the lowest three electronic states of the NaH molecule. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:7211-7223. [PMID: 38349744 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp05402k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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It has been known that electronic conical intersections in a molecular system can also be created by laser light even in diatomics. The direct consequence of these light-induced degeneracies is the appearance of a strong mixing between the electronic and vibrational motions, which has a strong fingerprint on the ultrafast nuclear dynamics. In the present work, pump and probe numerical simulations are performed with the NaH molecule involving the first three singlet electronic states (X1Σ+(X), A1Σ+(A) and B1Π(B)) and several light-induced degeneracies in the numerical description. To demonstrate the impact of the multiple light-induced non-adiabatic effects together with the molecular rotation on the dynamical properties of the molecule, the dissociation probabilities, kinetic energy release spectra (KER) and the angular distributions of the photofragments were calculated by discussing the role of the permanent dipole moment as well.
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- Otabek Umarov
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary.
- Department of Optics and Spectroscopy, Samarkand State University, University blv. 15, 140104, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary.
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary.
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- Department of Information Technology, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary.
- ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd, Dugonics tér 13, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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Farfan CA, Turner DB. A systematic model study quantifying how conical intersection topography modulates photochemical reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:20265-20283. [PMID: 32966428 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03464a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Despite their important role in photochemistry and expected presence in most polyatomic molecules, conical intersections have been thoroughly characterized in a comparatively small number of systems. Conical intersections can confer molecular photoreactivity or photostability, often with remarkable efficacy, due to their unique structure: at a conical intersection, the adiabatic potential energy surfaces of two or more electronic states are degenerate, enabling ultrafast decay from an excited state without radiative emission, known as nonadiabatic transfer. Furthermore, the precise conical intersection topography determines fundamental properties of photochemical processes, including excited-state decay rate, efficacy, and molecular products that are formed. However, these relationships have yet to be defined comprehensively. In this article, we use an adaptable computational model to investigate a variety of conical intersection topographies, simulate resulting nonadiabatic dynamics, and calculate key photochemical observables. We varied the vibrational mode frequencies to modify conical intersection topography systematically in four primary classes of conical intersections and quantified the resulting rate, total yield, and product yield of nonadiabatic decay. The results reveal that higher vibrational mode frequencies reduce nonadiabatic transfer, but increase the transfer rate and resulting photoproduct formation. These trends can inform progress toward experimental control of photochemical reactions or tuning of molecules' photochemical properties based on conical intersections and their topography.
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- Camille A Farfan
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Mangaud E, Lasorne B, Atabek O, Desouter-Lecomte M. Statistical distributions of the tuning and coupling collective modes at a conical intersection using the hierarchical equations of motion. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:244102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5128852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Etienne Mangaud
- Physicochimie des Electrolytes et des Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux-UMR 8234 Sorbonne Université, F-75252 Paris, France and Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité (IRSAMC), Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, UMR 5589, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (ICGM), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut de Chimie Physique (ICP), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, F-91405 Orsay, France and Département de Chimie, Université de Liège, Sart Tilman, B6, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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Tóth A, Badankó P, Halász GJ, Vibók Á, Csehi A. Importance of the lowest-lying Π electronic state in the photodissociation dynamics of LiF. Chem Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Csehi A, Halász GJ, Cederbaum LS, Vibók Á. Intrinsic and light-induced nonadiabatic phenomena in the NaI molecule. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:19656-19664. [PMID: 28489085 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp02164j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nonadiabatic effects play a very important role in controlling chemical dynamical processes. They are strongly related to avoided crossings (AC) or conical intersections (CIs) which can either be present naturally or induced by classical laser light in a molecular system. The latter are named as "light-induced avoided crossings" (LIACs) and "light-induced conical intersections" (LICIs). By performing one or two dimensional quantum dynamical calculations LIAC and LICI situations can easily be created even in diatomic molecules. Applying such calculations for the NaI molecule, which is a strongly coupled diatomic in field free case, significant differences between the impact of the LIAC and LICI on the ground state population dynamics were observed. Moreover, obtained results undoubtedly demonstrate that the effect of the LIAC and LICI on the dynamics strongly depends on the intensity and the frequency of the applied laser field as well as the permanent dipole moments of the molecule.
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- András Csehi
- Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary.
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Waldl M, Oppel M, González L. Controlling the Excited-State Dynamics of Nuclear Spin Isomers Using the Dynamic Stark Effect. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:4907-14. [PMID: 26840424 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b12542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Stark control of chemical reactions uses intense laser pulses to distort the potential energy surfaces of a molecule, thus opening new chemical pathways. We use the concept of Stark shifts to convert a local minimum into a local maximum of the potential energy surface, triggering constructive and destructive wave-packet interferences, which then induce different dynamics on nuclear spin isomers in the electronically excited state of a quinodimethane derivative. Model quantum-dynamical simulations on reduced dimensionality using optimized ultrashort laser pulses demonstrate a difference of the excited-state dynamics of two sets of nuclear spin isomers, which ultimately can be used to discriminate between these isomers.
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- Maria Waldl
- Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien , Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien , Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien , Währinger Str. 17, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Arasaki Y, Mizuno Y, Scheit S, Takatsuka K. Stark-assisted quantum confinement of wavepackets. A coupling of nonadiabatic interaction and CW-laser. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:044107. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4940341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Yasuki Arasaki
- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, 153-8902 Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, 153-8902 Tokyo, Japan
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- Theoretische Chemie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuneheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, 153-8902 Tokyo, Japan
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