Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Tracking multiple components of a nuclear wavepacket in photoexcited Cu(I)-phenanthroline complex using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy

  • Tetsuo Katayama,
  • Thomas Northey,
  • Wojciech Gawelda,
  • Christopher J. Milne,
  • György Vankó,
  • Frederico A. Lima,
  • Rok Bohinc,
  • Zoltán Németh,
  • Shunsuke Nozawa,
  • Tokushi Sato,
  • Dmitry Khakhulin,
  • Jakub Szlachetko,
  • Tadashi Togashi,
  • Shigeki Owada,
  • Shin-ichi Adachi,
  • Christian Bressler,
  • Makina Yabashi,
  • Thomas J. Penfold

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11499-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nonadiabatic excited state processes involve mixing of electronic and nuclear wavefunctions, which are difficult to disentangle. Here the authors explore by time-resolved X-ray absorption near edge structure the wavepacket dynamics of a copper(I)-phenanthroline complex, resolving different vibrational modes.