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  • Title: Polarized pump-probe measurements of electronic motion via a conical intersection.
    Author: Farrow DA, Qian W, Smith ER, Ferro AA, Jonas DM.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2008 Apr 14; 128(14):144510. PubMed ID: 18412462.
    Abstract:
    Polarized femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy is used to observe electronic wavepacket motion for vibrational wavepackets centered on a conical intersection. After excitation of a doubly degenerate electronic state in a square symmetric silicon naphthalocyanine molecule, electronic motions cause a approximately 100 fs drop in the polarization anisotropy that can be quantitatively predicted from vibrational quantum beat modulations of the pump-probe signal. Vibrational symmetries are determined from the polarization anisotropy of the vibrational quantum beats. The polarization anisotropy of the totally symmetric vibrational quantum beats shows that the electronic wavepackets equilibrate via the conical intersection within approximately 200 fs. The relationship used to predict the initial electronic polarization anisotropy decay from the asymmetric vibrational quantum beat amplitudes indicates that the initial width of the vibrational wavepacket determines the initial speed of electronic wavepacket motion. For chemically reactive conical intersections, which can have 1000 times greater stabilization energies than the one observed here, the same theory predicts electronic equilibration within 2 fs. Such electronic movements would be the fastest known chemical processes.
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