Control of charge migration in molecules by ultrashort laser pulses
Due to electronic many-body effects, the ionization of a molecule can trigger ultrafast electron dynamics appearing as a migration of the created hole charge throughout the system. Here we propose a scheme to control the charge-migration dynamics with a single ultrashort laser pulse. We demonstrate...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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20 May 2015
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Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Year: 2015, Volume: 91, Issue: 5, Pages: 051401(R) |
| ISSN: | 1094-1622 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.051401 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.051401 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.051401 
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| Author Notes: | Nikolay V. Golubev and Alexander I. Kuleff |
| Summary: | Due to electronic many-body effects, the ionization of a molecule can trigger ultrafast electron dynamics appearing as a migration of the created hole charge throughout the system. Here we propose a scheme to control the charge-migration dynamics with a single ultrashort laser pulse. We demonstrate by fully ab initio calculations on a molecule containing a chromophore and amine moieties that simple pulses can be used to stop the charge-migration oscillations and localize the charge on the desired site of the system. We argue that this control may be used to predetermine the follow-up nuclear rearrangement and thus the molecular reactivity. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 27.07.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1094-1622 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.051401 |