Publications related to Vibronic spectroscopy

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Isotope Effects on the Electronic Spectra of Ammonia from Ab Initio Semiclassical Dynamics

Jiri Vanicek, Yannick Calvino Alonso, Eriks Kletnieks

Despite its simplicity, the single-trajectory thawed Gaussian approximation has proven useful for calculating the vibrationally resolved electronic spectra of molecules with weakly anharmonic potential energy surfaces. Here, we show that the thawed Gaussia ...

2023

Charging and Electric Field Effects on Hydrogen Molecules Physisorbed on Graphene

Klaus Kern, Shai Mangel, Alessio Scavuzzo, Tobias Wollandt

Molecular hydrogen adsorbed on graphene was investigated by analyzing rotational excitation spectra obtained with a gate-tunable scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Through the shift of the rotational excitation energy, the tunability of physisorbed H2 on ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Wigner Gaussian dynamics: Simulating the anharmonic and quantum ionic motion

Lorenzo Monacelli

The atomic motion controls important properties of materials, such as thermal transport, phase transitions, and vibrational spectra. However, simulating the ionic dynamics is exceptionally challenging when quantum fluctuations are relevant (e.g., at low te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Bridging Native and Intrinsic Structures of Microhydrated Biomolecules by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Andrei Zviagin

Solving native structures of such large molecules, like biomolecules, is often challenging, particularly due to the potentially infinite number of non-covalent interactions with water. In this thesis, we report the use of cold ion gas-phase action spectros ...

EPFL2023

Antenna-coupled infrared nanospectroscopy of intramolecular vibrational interaction

Hatice Altug, Aurélian Michel John-Herpin

Many photonic and electronic molecular properties, as well as chemical and biochemical reactivities are controlled by fast intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR). This fundamental ultrafast process limits coherence time in applications from ...

National Academy of Sciences2023

High-Throughput Multiplexed Infrared Spectroscopy of Ion Mobility-Separated Species Using Hadamard Transform

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Ali H Abikhodr, Vasyl Yatsyna

Coupling vibrational ion spectroscopy with highresolution ion mobility separation offers a promising approach for detailed analysis of biomolecules in the gas phase. Improvements in the ion mobility technology have made it possible to separate isomers with ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Efficient Semiclassical Dynamics for Vibronic Spectroscopy beyond Harmonic, Condon, and Zero-Temperature Approximations

Jiri Vanicek, Tomislav Begusic

Understanding light-induced processes in biological and human-made molecular systems is one of the main goals of physical chemistry. It has been known for years that the photoinduced dynamics of atomic nuclei can be studied by looking at the vibrational su ...

2021

Ab initio semiclassical evaluation of vibrationally resolved electronic spectra with thawed Gaussians

Jiri Vanicek, Tomislav Begusic

Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules provide valuable information about the quantum properties of both electrons and nuclei. This chapter reviews the recent progress in ab initio semiclassical calculations of such spectra, base ...

Elsevier2021

Finite-Temperature, Anharmonicity, and Duschinsky Effects on the Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra from Ab Initio Thermo-Field Gaussian Wavepacket Dynamics

Jiri Vanicek, Tomislav Begusic

Accurate description of finite-temperature vibrational dynamics is indispensable in the computation of two-dimensional electronic spectra. Such simulations are often based on the density matrix evolution, statistical averaging of initial vibrational states ...

2021

Broadband visible two-dimensional spectroscopy of molecular dyes

Majed Chergui, Andre Al Haddad, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy is a promising technique to study ultrafast molecular dynamics. Similar to transient absorption spectroscopy, a more complete picture of the dynamics requires broadband laser pulses to observe transient change ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Importance of Long-Range Channel Sr Displacements for the Narrow Emission in Sr[Li2Al2O2N2]:Eu2+ Phosphor

Samuel Poncé

The recently discovered Sr[Li2Al2O2N2]:Eu2+ red phosphor, candidate for the next generation of eco-efficient white light-emitting diodes, exhibits excellent emission spectral position and exceptionally small linewidth. It belongs to the UCr4C4-structure fa ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Semiclassical Approach to Photophysics Beyond Kasha’s Rule and Vibronic Spectroscopy Beyond the Condon Approximation. The Case of Azulene

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jiri Vanicek, Antonio Prlj, Tomas Zimmermann, Tomislav Begusic, George Cameron Fish, Seonghoon Choi, Marius Wehrle, Julien Roulet, Zhan Tong Zhang

Azulene is a prototypical molecule with ananomalousfluorescence from the second excited electronic state,thus violating Kasha’s rule, and with an emission spectrum thatcannot be understood within the Condon approximation. To betterunderstand the photophysi ...

2020

Effects of Ball Milling and TiF3 Addition on the Dehydrogenation Temperature of Ca(BH4)2 Polymorphs

Andreas Züttel

The changes introduced by both ball milling and the addition of small amounts of TiF3 in the kinetics of the hydrogen desorption of three different Ca(BH4)2 polymorphs (α, β and γ) have been systematically investigated. The samples with different polymorph ...

2020

Investigation of the low-energy stereodynamics in the Ne(3P2) + N2, CO reactions

Andreas Osterwalder, Junwen Zou

We report on an experimental investigation of the low-energy stereodynamics of the energy transfer reactions Ne(3P2) + X, producing Ne(1S) + X+ and [Ne–X]+ (X = N2 or CO). Collision energies in the range 0.2 K–700 K are obtained by using the merged beam te ...

2020

On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of vibronic spectra at finite temperature

Jiri Vanicek, Tomislav Begusic

To compute and analyze vibrationally resolved electronic spectra at zero temperature, we have recently implemented the on-the-fly ab initio extended thawed Gaussian approximation [A. Patoz et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2367 (2018)], which accounts for an ...

2020

Nanophotonic supercontinuum-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Wolfgang Hänsel

High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical processes, and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser frequency combs via dual-comb spectroscopy. Her ...

2020

Modes interplay controls the second harmonic generation dynamics of plasmonic nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Andrei Kiselev, Gabriel David Bernasconi

A large amount of experimental and theoretical works deals with the second harmonic generation from different plasmonic geometries. Since they often consider relatively long optical pulses, many of these studies are focused on the investigation of a quasi- ...

SPIE2020

The instrument suite of the European Spallation Source

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Michael Müller, Paul Gregory Freeman

An overview is provided of the 15 neutron beam instruments making up the initial instrument suite of the European Spallation Source (ESS), and being made available to the neutron user community. The ESS neutron source consists of a high-power accelerator a ...

2020

Photoemission from non-polar aromatic molecules in the gas and liquid phase

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara, Jakob Grilj, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, Luca Longetti

The photoelectron spectra of both liquid and gas phase aromatic molecules are reported. The spectra were obtained using a 34.1 eV source produced by high harmonic generation and analysed with the help of high-level ab initio simulations using the reflectio ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy for Identification of Monosaccharide Anomers

Thomas Rizzo, Valeriu Scutelnic

We combine conformer-selective, cryogenic infrared spectroscopy, quantum mechanical computations, and 18O substitution at the reducing end to determine the structural preferences of protonated glucosamine in the gas phase. Cryogenic infrared-infrared (IR-I ...

2019