Resonance-Raman-induced Kerr effect in molecules in the ground and electronically excited states

A theoretical investigation of the resonantly enhanced, Raman-induced Kerr effect (resonance-RIKE) is given, taking into account the resonance absorption of the laser wave and the population of excited electronic states. Line shape, maximum amplification and optimum conditions for the resonance-RIKE from the ground state as well as for the resonance-RIKE from an initial excited electronic state are discussed in detail. The possibility is studied of applying this method to the investigation of the vibrational structure of excited electronic states in molecules.     

The evaluation of temporal electronic structures of nonresonant Raman excited virtual state of thiourea

An algorithm has been introduced to calculate molecular bond polarizabilities of thiourea, which supply essential electronic information about the nonresonant Raman excited virtual states. The main dynamical behaviour of the excited virtual states of thiourea is that the Raman excited electrons tend to flow to the N-H bonds and C-N bonds from the S-C bonds because of the electronic repulsion effect. The difference in Raman excited electron relaxation time of thiourea under 514.5-nm and 325-nm excitations has been observed, which quantitatively shows that the Raman scattering process is dependent on the wavelength of the pumping laser. Finally, the distribution of the electrons at the final stage of relaxation is given out through the comparison between the bond electronic densities of the ground states and the bond polarizabilities after deexcitation.     

A theoretical forecast of the hydrogen bond changes in the electronic excited state for BN and its derivatives

The relationship between electronic spectral shifts and hydrogen-bonding dynamics in electronically excited states of the hydrogen-bonded complex is put forward. Hydrogen bond strengthening will induce a redshift of the corresponding electronic spectra, while hydrogen bond weakening will cause a blueshift. Time-dependent density function theory (TDDFT) was used to study the excitation energies in both singlet and triplet electronically excited states of Benzonitrile (BN), 4-aminobenzonitrile (ABN), and 4-dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN) in methanol solvents. Only the intermolecular hydrogen bond C≡N...H-O was involved in our system. A fairly accurate forecast of the hydrogen bond changes in lowlying electronically excited states were presented in light of a very thorough consideration of their related electronic spectra. The deduction we used to depict the trend of the hydrogen bond changes in excited states could help others understand hydrogen-bonding dynamics more effectively.     

Vibronic Structures of the Ground and Excited Singlet Electronic States of Dimethylnaphthalenes Cooled in a Supersonic Jet

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Fluorescence excitation and dispersed fluorescence spectra of jet-cooled naphthalene and 2,6-, 2,7-dimethylnaphthalenes have been measured. The frequencies of optical active vibrations in the ground and first excited singlet states have been determined. The new technique for calculation of planar vibration frequencies of polycyclic benzenoid hydrocarbons in the excited electronic states has been developed. The vibration frequencies in the ground and first excited singlet states of these molecules were calculated using the developed technique and the Ohno's model. The interpretation of vibronic spectral lines based on the comparison of the calculated and experimental data was made. The calculation rms errors for the vibration frequencies in the ground electronic states of the investigated molecules do not exceed 20 cm^?1 and are approximately 1.5 times higher for excited states without additional adjustment of parameters for individual molecules.     

Electron transfer dynamics in the excited state studied by stochastic-Liouville equation

Electron transfer dynamics in the excited state is theoretically investigated by means of the stoschastic-Liouville equation. We evaluate time dependence of the density matrix for the three electronic states, the ground state, locally excited state, and the charge transfer state by solving the equation numerically. We treat the optical transition and electronic interaction in the excited states quantum mechanically to investigate these effects on the reaction dynamics.     

Fluorescence emission from excited molecular ions in intense femtosecond laser fields

Strong fluorescence emissions were observed for nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide molecules in intense femtosecond laser fields. These emissions can be assigned to the transitions of the molecular ions from the excited electronic states to the ground electronic states. The formation mechanisms were discussed and the lifetimes were measured for these excited molecular ions in intense laser fields.     

Theory of the resonance electronic Raman effect

The behaviour of electronic Raman scattering, excited under resonance conditions, is discussed in relation to molecular properties of the ground electronic state, the resonant excited state and the final electronic state. It is shown how the intensity distribution within vibronically structured electronic Raman bands depends on differences of molecular geometry and force field between these states.     

Electronic energy exchange in high-temperature air

Kinetic processes with the participation of electronic states of atoms and molecules in air behind the shock wave front were analyzed. All metastable levels of molecular and atomic oxygen and nitrogen and nitrogen oxide molecules situated below the dissociation energy were analyzed. In high-temperature air, atom and molecule electronic states are formed in dissociation and recombination, electronic energy exchange in collisions of particles, and chemical exchange reactions. The formation of excited electronic states in the recombination of atoms and isoenergy vibrational energy transfer from highly excited vibrational levels into electronic energy is the fastest process. The quenching of metastable particles occurs in collisions between particles, dissociation and recombination, and chemical exchange reactions. A database on electronic energy exchange rate constants in high-temperature air is presented.     

飞秒激光控制的分子量子动力学研究：(Ⅰ)三维二能级系统

结合MCDTDH方法和优化控制理论，以吡嗪分子为例，模拟了在给定不同的目标态下具有3个振动模两个电子态的分子系统的量子动力学过程. 以电子激发态作为目标态，优化激光场为一个楔形脉冲，它所激发的电子波函数在两个调制模空间中振荡最后达到平衡位置，并有较高的目标态产生率.发现目标态的选择强烈地影响波函数随时间的演变情况，若目标态在各个模的平衡位置，在优化激光场的作用下，电子波函数被直接激发到其平衡位置；若目标态不在振动模的平衡位形，其电子波函数经过强烈的振荡以达到平衡态. 关键词： 优化控制 MCTDH 方法 分子量子动力学     

Electronic transitions of fluorene, dibenzofuran, carbazole, and dibenzothiophene: From the onset of absorption to the ionization threshold

A comparative study of the electronic transitions of fluorene and its hetero-analogues dibenzofuran, carbazole, and dibenzothiophene was performed in a wide energy range. Gas phase, crystal phase, and linear dichroism electronic transmittance spectra were measured with synchrotron radiation. Electronic transitions to excited singlet states were predicted with time-dependent density functional theory, TD-B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p). Based on the experimental and theoretical results, symmetry assignments of electronic transitions in the vacuum and near-UV region are suggested. The correspondence between excited states in these molecules, similarities, and differences between their electronic spectra are discussed.     

Temporal electronic structures of nonresonant Raman excited virtual states: a case study of ethylene thiourea

An algorithm is employed to elucidate molecular bond polarizabilities of ethylene thiourea including their temporal relaxation from Raman intensities, which provide much information concerning the electronic distribution of nonresonant Raman excited virtual states. The main character of the excited states of ethylene thiourea is that the excited electrons tend to flow to the molecular periphery because of electronic repulsion. It is noted that the bond electronic densities of the ground state can be mapped out by the bond polarizabilities at the final stage of relaxation. The relaxation time is shown to be proportional to the wavelength of the exciting light in agreement with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, showing that the excitations are indeed not the stationary eigenstates. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The single-determinant approximation with a local potential for excited states

The specific features of the calculations of the electronic structure in the approximation of a local exchange potential that is identical for all the electrons involved are considered. An optimized effective potential method is proposed for calculating the energies of excited electronic states of the same symmetry. A single-particle Schrö dinger equation is derived for an excited state whose orbitals are described by a single-determinant wave function orthogonal to the ground state. The equations determining the local potential for excited states are obtained within the variational approach. The solution to these equations is analyzed in the framework of the parameterized representation of the effective potential. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by calculating the energies of three excited states of the same symmetry for a HeH molecule. The difference between the results obtained by the Hartree-Fock method and the method proposed in this paper is equal, on average, to 0.05%. A comparison with the results obtained from precise calculations based on the configuration interaction method shows that the accuracy in determining the energy of the excited states by the optimized effective potential method is comparable to the accuracy in calculating the energy of the ground state.     

Vibronic spectra, ab initio calculations, and structures of conformationally non-rigid molecules of oxalyl halides in the ground and lowest excited electronic states. Part II: Theoretical investigation of oxalyl chloride

The structures of the oxalyl chloride molecule (COCl)₂ in the ground and the four lowest (two singlet and two triplet) excited electronic states were investigated by means of the CASPT2(8-6)/cc-pVTZ technique. The equilibrium geometric parameters, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and adiabatic energies of the electronic transitions were determined for all states under investigation. The calculations predicted the existence of the trans- and gauche- conformers in the ground state and the trans- and cis-conformers in all excited states. For the ground electronic state, the conformer energy difference and the barriers to conformational transitions were estimated using extrapolation to the complete basis set within a Valence Focal-Point Analysis procedure. The internal rotation in the excited electronic states was found to be strongly coupled with the non-planar symmetric CCOCl wagging. Two-dimensional potential energy surface sections along internal rotation and non-planar coordinates were constructed, and the corresponding anharmonic vibrational problems for the trans-conformer were solved.     

Extension of the Local Approach to excited states of molecules

The Local Approach for the calculation of electronic correlation energies in molecules is generalized to excited states. Within the Local Approach correlated states are obtained by applying a local projection operator on the Hartree-Fock ground state or simple reference states, which are used as zeroth order approximations for the excited states, respectively. In the case of excited states one has in addition to require the correlated states to be orthogonal on the states lower in energy. This is done by using Schmidt's orthogonalization. The method is applied to a simple model of the H₆-ring for which an exact solution is available. The results obtained are of comparable quality as for the ground state.     

Mechanism and Dynamics of the Photoinduced Fe–O2 Bond Breaking in Oxyhemoglobin

Russian Physics Journal - The paper is devoted to time-resolved studies of human hemoglobin, including excited electronic states and relaxation processes, quantum yield and dissociation electronic...     

Electronically excited cold ion crystals

The laser excitation of an ion crystal to high-lying and long-lived electronic states is a genuine many-body process even if in fact only a single ion is excited. This is a direct manifestation of the strong coupling between internal and external dynamics and becomes most apparent in the vicinity of a structural phase transition. Here we show that utilizing highly excited states offers a new approach to the coherent manipulation of ion crystals. This opens up a new route towards the creation of nonclassical motional states in a Paul trap and permits the study of quantum phenomena that rely on a strong coupling between electronic and vibrational dynamics.     

Direct observation of the dynamics of electronic excitations in molecules and small clusters

Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is applied to study relaxation paths of excited states of mass-selected negatively charged clusters. As a first example, the lifetime of an excited state of the carbon trimer anion is measured directly. In addition, the mechanism of the decay, i.e., the configurations of the participating electronic states, is determined from the photoelectron spectra. In general, this method can be used to study all kinds of electronic excitation and relaxation processes in mass-selected nanoparticles.     

Measurement of the Wigner Characteristic Function for the Center-of-Mass Motion of Two Trapped Ions

We proposed a scheme for the reconstruction of the quantum states for the center-of-mass vibrationalmode of two trapped ions. In the scheme the ions are multichromatically excited by three lasers. Then measurementof the difference between probabilities of the ions being both in electronic ground and excited states directly yields theWigner characteristic function for the center-of-mass vibrational state. The scheme can also be used to prepare entangledcoherent states for the center-of-mass and relative vibrational modes.     

Electron and exciton excited states of the neutral donor in Zn Te

We have determined experimentally the electronic structure of the neutral donor in Zn Te. We see 5 different excited states which correspond to a bound exciton. Recombination of these excitons can leave the donor in an electronic excited state up to the n = 4 state. The structure seen in the n = 2 is discussed in term of configuration interaction.     

The laser-induced fluorescence spectrum of the 1,2,3-trifluorobenzene radical cation

Laser-induced fluorescence spectra of the radical cation of 1,2,3-trifluorobenzene have determined the origin of the electronic transition and the lifetime of the excited state in both the gas phase and solid Ne matrices. The gas phase spectrum shows relatively poorly resolved vibrational structure, as the lines seem to be badly broadened by rotational contours. The matrix spectra show extensive, well-resolved vibrational structure with small but noticeable matrix perturbations. The structure is also rather irregular and differs considerably between the ground and excited states. All of these observations are consistent with a considerable change in geometry between the two electronic states.