Volume 115, 2000

Introductory Lecture. Probing wavepacket dynamics with femtosecond energy- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

Abstract

Several recent studies have demonstrated how well-suited femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectra are for mapping wavepacket dynamics in molecular systems. Theoretical studies of femtosecond photoelectron spectra which incorporate a robust description of the underlying photoionization dynamics should enhance the utility of such spectra as a probe of wavepackets and of the evolution of electronic structure. This should be particularly true in regions of avoided crossings where the photoionization amplitudes and electronic structure may evolve rapidly with geometry. In this paper we present the results of studies of energy- and angle-resolved femtosecond photoelectron spectra for wavepackets in the diatomic systems, Na2 and NaI. Both cases involve motion through regions of avoided crossings. In Na2, however, wavepacket motion occurs on a single adiabatic potential with an inner and outer well and a barrier between them, while in NaI wavepackets move on the nonadiabatically coupled covalent (NaI) and ionic (Na+Iāˆ’) potentials. Results of these studies will be used to illustrate the insight into wavepacket dynamics that time-resolved photoelectron spectra provide. For example, in the case of NaI these angle-resolved photoelectron spectra seem to offer some promise for probing real-time dynamics of intramolecular electron transfer occurring in the crossing region of the ionic and covalent states.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Apr 2000
First published
15 Jun 2000

Faraday Discuss., 2000,115, 1-15

Introductory Lecture. Probing wavepacket dynamics with femtosecond energy- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

K. Takatsuka, Y. Arasaki, K. Wang and V. McKoy, Faraday Discuss., 2000, 115, 1 DOI: 10.1039/B002739L

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