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Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Jordan T. O’Neal1,2,*, Elio G. Champenois1, Solène Oberli3, Razib Obaid4, Andre Al-Haddad5,6, Jonathan Barnard7, Nora Berrah4, Ryan Coffee1,8, Joseph Duris9 et al.

Gediminas Galinis7, Douglas Garratt7, James M. Glownia8, Daniel Haxton10, Phay Ho5, Siqi Li1,2,9, Xiang Li8,12, James MacArthur2,9, Jon P Marangos7, Adi Natan1, Niranjan Shivaram8,13, Daniel S. Slaughter13, Peter Walter8, Scott Wandel8, Linda Young5,14, Christoph Bostedt5,6,15, Philip H. Bucksbaum1,2,11, Antonio Picón3, Agostino Marinelli1,9, and James P. Cryan1,8,†

  • 1Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 3Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
  • 5Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
  • 6Paul-Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • 7Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
  • 8Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 9SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 10KLA Corporation, Milpitas, California 95035, USA
  • 11Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 12J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
  • 13Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 14Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • 15LUXS Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray Sciences, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • *Corresponding author. joneal2@stanford.edu
  • Corresponding author. jcryan@slac.stanford.edu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073203 – Published 11 August, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.073203

Abstract

Free-electron lasers provide a source of x-ray pulses short enough and intense enough to drive nonlinearities in molecular systems. Impulsive interactions driven by these x-ray pulses provide a way to create and probe valence electron motions with high temporal and spatial resolution. Observing these electronic motions is crucial to understand the role of electronic coherence in chemical processes. A simple nonlinear technique for probing electronic motion, impulsive stimulated x-ray Raman scattering (ISXRS), involves a single impulsive interaction to produce a coherent superposition of electronic states. We demonstrate electronic population transfer via ISXRS using broad bandwidth (5.5 eV full width at half maximum) attosecond x-ray pulses produced by the Linac Coherent Light Source. The impulsive excitation is resonantly enhanced by the oxygen 1s2π* resonance of nitric oxide (NO), and excited state neutral molecules are probed with a time-delayed UV laser pulse.

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Jumpstarting Electron Motion in Molecules

Published 11 August, 2020

Ultrashort pulses of x rays swap electrons around in molecules of nitric oxide, an important first step to tracking charge motion in molecules.

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