TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yang, Jie
A1  - Zhu, Xiaolei
A1  - Wolf, Thomas J. A.
A1  - Li, Zheng
A1  - Nunes, João Pedro Figueira
A1  - Coffee, Ryan
A1  - Cryan, James P.
A1  - Gühr, Markus
A1  - Hegazy, Kareem
A1  - Heinz, Tony F.
A1  - Jobe, Keith
A1  - Li, Renkai
A1  - Shen, Xiaozhe
A1  - Veccione, Theodore
A1  - Weathersby, Stephen
A1  - Wilkin, Kyle J.
A1  - Yoneda, Charles
A1  - Zheng, Qiang
A1  - Martinez, Todd J.
A1  - Centurion, Martin
A1  - Wang, Xijie
T1  - Imaging CF3I conical intersection and photodissociation dynamics with ultrafast electron diffraction
JF  - Science
N2  - Conical intersections play a critical role in excited-state dynamics of polyatomic molecules because they govern the reaction pathways of many nonadiabatic processes. However, ultrafast probes have lacked sufficient spatial resolution to image wave-packet trajectories through these intersections directly. Here, we present the simultaneous experimental characterization of one-photon and two-photon excitation channels in isolated CF3I molecules using ultrafast gas-phase electron diffraction. In the two-photon channel, we have mapped out the real-space trajectories of a coherent nuclear wave packet, which bifurcates onto two potential energy surfaces when passing through a conical intersection. In the one-photon channel, we have resolved excitation of both the umbrella and the breathing vibrational modes in the CF3 fragment in multiple nuclear dimensions. These findings benchmark and validate ab initio nonadiabatic dynamics calculations.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat0049
SN  - 0036-8075
SN  - 1095-9203
VL  - 361
IS  - 6397
SP  - 64
EP  - 67
PB  - American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
CY  - Washington
ER  -