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Ruberti M, Patchkovskii S, Averbukh V. Quantum coherence in molecular photoionization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:19673-19686. [PMID: 35946491 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01562e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The study of onset and decay, as well as control of ultrafast quantum coherence in many-electron systems is in the focus of interest of attosecond physics. Interpretation of attosecond experiments detecting the ultrafast quantum coherence requires application of advanced theoretical and computational tools combining many-electron theory, description of the electronic continuum, including in the strong laser field scenario, as well as nuclear dynamics theory. This perspective reviews the recent theoretical advances in understanding the attosecond dynamics of quantum coherence in photoionized molecular systems and outlines possible future directions of theoretical and experimental study of coherence and entanglement in the attosecond regime.
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- Marco Ruberti
- Imperial College London, Department of Physics, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Imperial College London, Department of Physics, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Schwickert D, Ruberti M, Kolorenč P, Usenko S, Przystawik A, Baev K, Baev I, Braune M, Bocklage L, Czwalinna MK, Deinert S, Düsterer S, Hans A, Hartmann G, Haunhorst C, Kuhlmann M, Palutke S, Röhlsberger R, Rönsch-Schulenburg J, Schmidt P, Toleikis S, Viefhaus J, Martins M, Knie A, Kip D, Averbukh V, Marangos JP, Laarmann T. Electronic quantum coherence in glycine molecules probed with ultrashort x-ray pulses in real time. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabn6848. [PMID: 35648864 PMCID: PMC9159702 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn6848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Here, we use x-rays to create and probe quantum coherence in the photoionized amino acid glycine. The outgoing photoelectron leaves behind the cation in a coherent superposition of quantum mechanical eigenstates. Delayed x-ray pulses track the induced coherence through resonant x-ray absorption that induces Auger decay and by photoelectron emission from sequential double photoionization. Sinusoidal temporal modulation of the detected signal at early times (0 to 25 fs) is observed in both measurements. Advanced ab initio many-electron simulations allow us to explain the first 25 fs of the detected coherent quantum evolution in terms of the electronic coherence. In the kinematically complete x-ray absorption measurement, we monitor its dynamics for a period of 175 fs and observe an evolving modulation that may implicate the coupling of electronic to vibronic coherence at longer time scales. Our experiment provides a direct support for the existence of long-lived electronic coherence in photoionized biomolecules.
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- David Schwickert
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holesovickach 2, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Helmut Schmidt University, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Helmut Schmidt University, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Kochetov V, Bokarev SI. RhoDyn: A ρ-TD-RASCI Framework to Study Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Molecules. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 18:46-58. [PMID: 34965135 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This article presents the program module RhoDyn as part of the OpenMOLCAS project intended to study ultrafast electron dynamics within the density-matrix-based time-dependent restricted active space configuration interaction framework (ρ-TD-RASCI). The formalism allows for the treatment of spin-orbit coupling effects, accounts for nuclear vibrations in the form of a vibrational heat bath, and naturally incorporates (auto)ionization effects. Apart from describing the theory behind and the program workflow, the paper also contains examples of its application to the simulations of the linear L2,3 absorption spectra of a titanium complex, high harmonic generation in the hydrogen molecule, ultrafast charge migration in benzene and iodoacetylene, and spin-flip dynamics in the core excited states of iron complexes.
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- Vladislav Kochetov
- Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, A.-Einstein-Strasse 23-24, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, A.-Einstein-Strasse 23-24, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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Armstrong GSJ, Khokhlova MA, Labeye M, Maxwell AS, Pisanty E, Ruberti M. Dialogue on analytical and ab initio methods in attoscience. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. D, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS 2021; 75:209. [PMID: 34720730 PMCID: PMC8550504 DOI: 10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00207-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The perceived dichotomy between analytical and ab initio approaches to theory in attosecond science is often seen as a source of tension and misconceptions. This Topical Review compiles the discussions held during a round-table panel at the 'Quantum Battles in Attoscience' cecam virtual workshop, to explore the sources of tension and attempt to dispel them. We survey the main theoretical tools of attoscience-covering both analytical and numerical methods-and we examine common misconceptions, including the relationship between ab initio approaches and the broader numerical methods, as well as the role of numerical methods in 'analytical' techniques. We also evaluate the relative advantages and disadvantages of analytical as well as numerical and ab initio methods, together with their role in scientific discovery, told through the case studies of two representative attosecond processes: non-sequential double ionisation and resonant high-harmonic generation. We present the discussion in the form of a dialogue between two hypothetical theoreticians, a numericist and an analytician, who introduce and challenge the broader opinions expressed in the attoscience community.
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- Gregory S. J. Armstrong
- Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN UK
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- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ UK
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- CNRS, PASTEUR, Département de chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT UK
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- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ UK
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Kissin Y, Ruberti M, Kolorenč P, Averbukh V. Attosecond pump-attosecond probe spectroscopy of Auger decay. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:12376-12386. [PMID: 34027527 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00623a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Attosecond pump-attosecond probe spectroscopy is becoming possible due the development of sub-femtosecond free electron laser (FEL) pulses as well as intense high-order harmonic generation-based attosecond sources. Here we investigate theoretically whether these developments can provide access to direct time-resolved measurement of Auger decay through detection of the total yield of an ionic decay product, in analogy to the photodissociation product detection in femtochemistry. We show that the ion yield based measurement is generally possible and in the case of the inner-valence hole decay can be background-free. Extensive first principles calculations are used to optimise the probe photon energies for a variety of prototypical systems.
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- Yoel Kissin
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Ruberti M. Quantum electronic coherences by attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy: ab initio B-spline RCS-ADC study. Faraday Discuss 2021; 228:286-311. [PMID: 33575690 DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00104j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Here I present a fully ab initio time-resolved study of X-ray attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) in a prototypical polyatomic molecule, pyrazine, and demonstrate the possibility of retrieving the many-electron quantum ionic coherences arising in attosecond molecular photoionisation and pre-determining the subsequent charge-directed photochemical reactivity. Advanced first-principles many-electron simulations are performed, within a hybrid XUV pump/X-ray probe setup, to describe the interaction of pyrazine with both XUV pump and X-ray probe pulses, and study the triggered correlated many-electron dynamics. The calculations are carried out by means of the recently-developed ab initio method for many-electron dynamics in polyatomic molecules, the time-dependent (TD) B-spline Restricted Correlation Space-Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction (RCS-ADC). RCS-ADC simulates molecular ionisation from first principles, combining the accurate description of electron correlation of quantum chemistry with the full account of the continuum dynamics of the photoelectron. Complete theoretical characterisation of the atto-ionised many-electron state and photo-induced attosecond charge dynamics is achieved by calculating the reduced ionic density matrix (R-IDM) of the bipartite ion-photoelectron system, with full inclusion of the correlated shakeup states. Deviations from the sudden approximation picture of photoionisation, in the low-photon-energy limit, are presented. The effect of the multi-channel interaction between the parent-ion and the emitted photoelectron on the onset of the quantum electronic coherences is analysed. Moreover, I show how the Schmidt decomposition of the R-IDM unravels the many-electron dynamics triggered by the pump, allowing for the identification of the key channels involved. Finally, I calculate the X-ray attosecond transient absorption spectra of XUV-ionised pyrazine. The results unveil the mapping of the ATAS measurement onto the quantum electronic coherences, and related non-zero R-IDM matrix elements, produced upon ionisation by the XUV pump laser pulse.
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- M Ruberti
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Interspecies radiative transition in warm and superdense plasma mixtures. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1989. [PMID: 32332785 PMCID: PMC7181684 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15916-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Superdense plasmas widely exist in planetary interiors and astrophysical objects such as brown-dwarf cores and white dwarfs. How atoms behave under such extreme-density conditions is not yet well understood, even in single-species plasmas. Here, we apply thermal density functional theory to investigate the radiation spectra of superdense iron–zinc plasma mixtures at mass densities of ρ = 250 to 2000 g cm−3 and temperatures of kT = 50 to 100 eV, accessible by double-shell–target implosions. Our ab initio calculations reveal two extreme atomic-physics phenomena—firstly, an interspecies radiative transition; and, secondly, the breaking down of the dipole-selection rule for radiative transitions in isolated atoms. Our first-principles calculations predict that for superdense plasma mixtures, both interatomic radiative transitions and dipole-forbidden transitions can become comparable to the normal intra-atomic Kα-emission signal. These physics phenomena were not previously considered in detail for extreme high-density plasma mixtures at super-high energy densities. Matter at extremely high density and pressure behaves differently than at ambient conditions. Here the authors use first-principles calculations to show the existence of interspecies radiative and dipole-forbidden transitions in warm and superdense plasma mixture of iron and zinc.
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Ruberti M. Onset of ionic coherence and ultrafast charge dynamics in attosecond molecular ionisation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:17584-17604. [PMID: 31372608 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03074c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Here is presented a fully ab initio theoretical framework for simulating the correlated many-electron dynamics occurring during and emerging from molecular ionisation by attosecond laser pulses. This is based on the time-dependent (TD) version of the B-spline restricted correlation space (RCS)-algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC) method, with the full description of the photoelectron and inclusion of electron correlation effects, such as shakeup processes and inter-channel couplings. The nature of the ultrafast charge dynamics in the molecular ion is elucidated by quantitatively predicting the degree of electronic coherence and eigenstate content of the prepared molecular cationic state, beyond the commonly used sudden approximation. The results presented here for the acetylene and ethylene molecules show that even in the high photon energy regime the simulated hole dynamics is quantitatively different from the prediction of the sudden approximation. Moreover, for high-bandwidth ionising pulse, the residual interaction between the cation, in highly-excited shake-up states, and the emitted slow photoelectron gives rise to a loss of coherence in the ionic system which can persist for the first few femtoseconds after ionisation.
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- M Ruberti
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Inhester L, Greenman L, Rudenko A, Rolles D, Santra R. Detecting coherent core-hole wave-packet dynamics in N2 by time- and angle-resolved inner-shell photoelectron spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5109867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Ludger Inhester
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
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Khokhlova MA, Cooper B, Ueda K, Prince KC, Kolorenč P, Ivanov MY, Averbukh V. Molecular Auger Interferometry. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:233001. [PMID: 31298870 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.233001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We introduce and present a theory of interferometric measurement of a normal Auger decay lifetime in molecules. Molecular Auger interferometry is based on the coherent phase control of Auger dynamics in a two-color (ω/2ω) laser field. We show that, in contrast to atoms, in oriented molecules of certain point groups the relative ω/2ω phase modulates the total ionization yield. A simple analytical formula is derived for the extraction of the lifetimes of Auger-active states from a molecular Auger interferogram, circumventing the need in either high-resolution or attosecond spectroscopy. We demonstrate the principle of the interferometric Auger lifetime measurement using inner-valence decay in CH_{3}F.
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- M A Khokhlova
- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 980-8577 Sendai, Japan
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA, 34149 Basovizza-Trieste, Italy
- Molecular Model Discovery Laboratory, Swinburne University of Technology, 3122 Hawthorn, Australia
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- Charles University, Institute of Theoretical Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, Berlin D-12489, Germany
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Ruberti M, Decleva P, Averbukh V. Full Ab Initio Many-Electron Simulation of Attosecond Molecular Pump–Probe Spectroscopy. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:4991-5000. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- M. Ruberti
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Trieste, Via Giorgieri 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Polyak I, Jenkins AJ, Vacher M, Bouduban MEF, Bearpark MJ, Robb MA. Charge migration engineered by localisation: electron-nuclear dynamics in polyenes and glycine. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1478136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- Iakov Polyak
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström, The Theoretical Chemistry Programme, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Photochemical Dynamics Group, Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Iablonskyi D, Ueda K, Ishikawa KL, Kheifets AS, Carpeggiani P, Reduzzi M, Ahmadi H, Comby A, Sansone G, Csizmadia T, Kuehn S, Ovcharenko E, Mazza T, Meyer M, Fischer A, Callegari C, Plekan O, Finetti P, Allaria E, Ferrari E, Roussel E, Gauthier D, Giannessi L, Prince KC. Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:073203. [PMID: 28949652 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.073203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Single-photon laser-enabled Auger decay (spLEAD) is predicted theoretically [B. Cooper and V. Averbukh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083004 (2013)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.111.083004] and here we report its first experimental observation in neon. Using coherent, bichromatic free-electron laser pulses, we detect the process and coherently control the angular distribution of the emitted electrons by varying the phase difference between the two laser fields. Since spLEAD is highly sensitive to electron correlation, this is a promising method for probing both correlation and ultrafast hole migration in more complex systems.
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- D Iablonskyi
- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
- Photon Science Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
- Physikalisches Institut der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- ELI-ALPS, Pintér József utca, 6728 Szeged, Hungary
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- ELI-ALPS, Pintér József utca, 6728 Szeged, Hungary
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- European XFEL GmbH, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL GmbH, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg 69117, Germany
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
- ENEA C.R. Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
- Molecular Model Discovery Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne 3122, Australia
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Vacher M, Bearpark MJ, Robb MA, Malhado JP. Electron Dynamics upon Ionization of Polyatomic Molecules: Coupling to Quantum Nuclear Motion and Decoherence. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:083001. [PMID: 28282194 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.083001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Knowledge about the electronic motion in molecules is essential for our understanding of chemical reactions and biological processes. The advent of attosecond techniques opens up the possibility to induce electronic motion, observe it in real time, and potentially steer it. A fundamental question remains the factors influencing electronic decoherence and the role played by nuclear motion in this process. Here, we simulate the dynamics upon ionization of the polyatomic molecules paraxylene and modified bismethylene-adamantane, with a quantum mechanical treatment of both electron and nuclear dynamics using the direct dynamics variational multiconfigurational Gaussian method. Our simulations give new important physical insights about the expected decoherence process. We have shown that the decoherence of electron dynamics happens on the time scale of a few femtoseconds, with the interplay of different mechanisms: the dephasing is responsible for the fast decoherence while the nuclear overlap decay may actually help maintain it and is responsible for small revivals.
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- Morgane Vacher
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75120, Sweden and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Sissay A, Abanador P, Mauger F, Gaarde M, Schafer KJ, Lopata K. Angle-dependent strong-field molecular ionization rates with tuned range-separated time-dependent density functional theory. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:094105. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4961731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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- Adonay Sissay
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
- Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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Li Z, Vendrell O, Santra R. Ultrafast Charge Transfer of a Valence Double Hole in Glycine Driven Exclusively by Nuclear Motion. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:143002. [PMID: 26551809 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.143002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We explore theoretically the ultrafast transfer of a double electron hole between the functional groups of glycine after K-shell ionization and subsequent Auger decay. Although a large energy gap of about 15 eV initially exists between the two electronic states involved and coherent electronic dynamics play no role in the hole transfer, we find that the double hole is transferred within 3 to 4 fs between both functional ends of the glycine molecule driven solely by specific nuclear displacements and non-Born-Oppenheimer effects. The nuclear displacements along specific vibrational modes are of the order of 15% of a typical chemical bond between carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen atoms and about 30% for bonds involving hydrogen atoms. The time required for the hole transfer corresponds to less than half a vibrational period of the involved nuclear modes. This finding challenges the common wisdom that nuclear dynamics of the molecular skeleton are unimportant for charge transfer processes at the few-femtosecond time scale and shows that they can even play a prominent role. It also indicates that in x-ray imaging experiments, in which ionization is unavoidable, valence electron redistribution caused by nuclear dynamics might be much faster than previously anticipated. Thus, non-Born-Oppenheimer effects may affect the apparent electron densities extracted from such measurements.
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- Zheng Li
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestraß e 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestraß e 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestraß e 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 9, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany
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Timmers H, Li Z, Shivaram N, Santra R, Vendrell O, Sandhu A. Coherent electron hole dynamics near a conical intersection. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:113003. [PMID: 25259975 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.113003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The coherent evolution of an electron hole in a photoionized molecule represents an unexplored facet of charge transfer phenomena occurring in complex systems. Using ultrafast extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy, we investigate the real-time dynamics of an electron hole wave packet created near a conical intersection in CO_{2}. We resolve the oscillation of the electron hole density between σ and π character, driven by the coupled bending and asymmetric stretch vibrations of the molecule. We also quantify the mixing between electron hole configurations and find that the wave packet coherence diminishes with time due to thermal dephasing.
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- Henry Timmers
- Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Li Z, El-Amine Madjet M, Vendrell O, Santra R. Core-level transient absorption spectroscopy as a probe of electron hole relaxation in photoionized H+(H2O)n. Faraday Discuss 2014; 171:457-70. [DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00078a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cooper B, Kolorenč P, Frasinski LJ, Averbukh V, Marangos JP. Analysis of a measurement scheme for ultrafast hole dynamics by few femtosecond resolution X-ray pump–probe Auger spectroscopy. Faraday Discuss 2014; 171:93-111. [DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00051j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Ultrafast hole dynamics created in molecular systems as a result of sudden ionisation is the focus of much attention in the field of attosecond science. Using the molecule glycine we show through ab initio simulations that the dynamics of a hole, arising from ionisation in the inner valence region, evolves with a timescale appropriate to be measured using X-ray pulses from the current generation of SASE free electron lasers. The examined pump–probe scheme uses X-rays with photon energy below the K edge of carbon (275–280 eV) that will ionise from the inner valence region. A second probe X-ray at the same energy can excite an electron from the core to fill the vacancy in the inner-valence region. The dynamics of the inner valence hole can be tracked by measuring the Auger electrons produced by the subsequent refilling of the core hole as a function of pump–probe delay. We consider the feasibility of the experiment and include numerical simulation to support this analysis. We discuss the potential for all X-ray pump-X-ray probe Auger spectroscopy measurements for tracking hole migration.
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- Charles University in Prague
- 18000 Prague, Czech Republic
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