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How to Find Molecules with Long-lasting Charge Migration?

Nikolay Golubev, Alan Scheidegger, Jiri Vanicek

Under certain conditions, the ionization of a molecule may create a superposition of electronic states, leading to ultrafast electron dynamics. If controlled, this motion could be used in attochemistry applications, but it has been shown that the decoherence induced by the nuclear motion typically happens in just a few femto-seconds. We recently developed an efficient algorithm for finding molecules exhibiting long-lasting electronic coherence and charge migration across the molecular structure after valence ionization. Here, we first explain why the but-3-ynal molecule is a promising candidate to study this type of ultrafast electron dynamics. Then, we use the 3-oxopropanenitrile molecule, which does not show long-lasting charge migration in any of three different ionization scenarios, as an example demonstrating that several different properties must be fulfilled simultane-ously to make the attochemistry applications possible.

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2023

Efficient Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules

Nikolay Golubev, Jiri Vanicek

Exposing a molecule to an intense light pulse can create a nonstationary quantum state, thus launching correlated dynamics of electrons and nuclei. Although much had been achieved in the understanding of fundamental physics behind the electron-nuclear interactions and dynamics, accurate numerical simulations of light-induced processes taking place in polyatomic molecules remain a formidable challenge. Here, we review a recently developed theoretical approach for evaluating electronic coherences in molecules, in which the ultrafast electronic dynamics is coupled to nuclear motion. The presented technique, which combines accurate ab initio on-the-fly simulations of electronic structure with efficient semiclassical procedure to compute the dynamics of nuclear wave packets, is not only computationally efficient, but also can help shed light on the underlying physical mechanisms of decoherence and revival of the electronic coherences driven by nuclear rearrangement.

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Search for long-lasting electronic coherence using on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical dynamics

Nikolay Golubev, Alan Scheidegger, Jiri Vanicek

Using a combination of high-level ab initio electronic structure methods with efficient on-the-fly semiclassical evaluation of nuclear dynamics, we performed a massive scan of small polyatomic molecules searching for a long-lasting oscillatory dynamics of the electron density triggered by the outer-valence ionization. We observed that in most of the studied molecules, either the sudden removal of an electron from the system does not lead to the appearance of the electronic coherence or the created coherences become damped by the nuclear rearrangement on a time scale of a few femtoseconds. However, we report several so far unexplored molecules with the electronic coherences lasting up to 10 fs, which can be good candidates for experimental studies. In addition, we present the full-dimensional simulations of the electronic coherences coupled to nuclear motion in several molecules which were studied previously only in the fixed nuclei approximation.& nbsp;(c) 2022 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

AIP Publishing2022