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Fouda AEA, Koulentianos D, Young L, Doumy G, Ho PJ. Resonant double-core excitations with ultrafast, intense X-ray pulses. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2133749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Adam E. A. Fouda
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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Matz F, Jagau TC. Molecular Auger Decay Rates from Complex-Variable Coupled-Cluster Theory. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:114117. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0075646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The emission of an Auger electron is the predominant relaxation mechanism of core-vacant states in molecules composed of light nuclei. In this non-radiative decay process, one valence electron fills the core vacancy while a second valence electron is emitted into the ionization continuum. Because of this coupling to the continuum, core-vacant states represent electronic resonances that can be tackled with standard quantum-chemical methods only if they are approximated as bound states, meaning that Auger decay is neglected. Here, we present an approach to compute Auger decay rates of core-vacant states from coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster wave functions combined with complex scaling of the Hamiltonian or, alternatively, complex-scaled basis functions. Through energy decomposition analysis, we illustrate how complex-scaled methods are capable of describing the coupling to the ionization continuum without the need to model the wave function of the Auger electron explicitly. In addition, we introduce in this work several approaches for the determination of partial decay widths and Auger branching ratios from complex-scaled coupled-cluster wave functions. We demonstrate the capabilities of our new approach by computations on core-ionized states of neon, water, dinitrogen, and benzene. Coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory in the singles and doubles approximation both deliver excellent results for total decay widths, whereas we find partial widths more straightforward to evaluate with the former method. We also observe that the requirements towards the basis set are less arduous for Auger decay than for other types of resonances so that extensions to larger molecules are readily possible.
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- Florian Matz
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Chemie, Belgium
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Howell RW. Advancements in the use of Auger electrons in science and medicine during the period 2015-2019. Int J Radiat Biol 2020; 99:2-27. [PMID: 33021416 PMCID: PMC8062591 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2020.1831706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Auger electrons can be highly radiotoxic when they are used to irradiate specific molecular sites. This has spurred basic science investigations of their radiobiological effects and clinical investigations of their potential for therapy. Focused symposia on the biophysical aspects of Auger processes have been held quadrennially. This 9th International Symposium on Physical, Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects of Auger Processes at Oxford University brought together scientists from many different fields to review past findings, discuss the latest studies, and plot the future work to be done. This review article examines the research in this field that was published during the years 2015-2019 which corresponds to the period since the last meeting in Japan. In addition, this article points to future work yet to be done. There have been a plethora of advancements in our understanding of Auger processes. These advancements range from basic atomic and molecular physics to new ways to implement Auger electron emitters in radiopharmaceutical therapy. The highly localized doses of radiation that are deposited within a 10 nm of the decay site make them precision tools for discovery across the physical, chemical, biological, and medical sciences.
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- Roger W Howell
- Division of Radiation Research, Department of Radiology, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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Fano-ADC is a family of ab initio methods for the prediction of electronic decay widths in excited, singly and doubly ionized systems. It has been particularly successful in elucidating the geometry dependence of the inter-atomic decay widths in clusters and facilitated the prediction of new electronic decay phenomena. However, the available Fano-ADC schemes are limited to the second-order treatment of the initial state and the first-order treatment of the final states of the decay. This confines the applicability of the Fano-ADC approach to first-order decay processes, e.g., normal but not double Auger decay (DAD), and compromises the numerical accuracy of the schemes through the unbalanced treatment of electronic correlation. Here, we introduce the ADC(2,2) approximation for singly ionized states, which describes both initial and final states of the decay up to second order. We use the new scheme to construct the Fano-ADC(2,2) approximation for the decay widths and show that it provides superior accuracy for the decay widths of a series of processes. Moreover, the Fano-ADC(2,2) method provides access to second-order decay processes, such as DAD, which are qualitatively beyond the reach of the previously available Fano-ADC implementations.
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- P Kolorenč
- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 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
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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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Hult Roos A, Eland J, Koulentianos D, Squibb R, Karlsson L, Feifel R. Valence double ionization electron spectra of CH 3 F, CH 3 Cl and CH 3 I. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2017.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Iwayama H, Kaneyasu T, Hikosaka Y, Shigemasa E. Stability and dissociation dynamics of N2++ ions following core ionization studied by an Auger-electron–photoion coincidence method. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:034305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4958620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- H. Iwayama
- UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- SOKENDAI, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- SOKENDAI, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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