Control of nuclear dynamics in the benzene cation by electronic wavepacket composition.

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Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Published: April 2021


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The study of coupled electron-nuclear dynamics driven by coherent superpositions of electronic states is now possible in attosecond science experiments. The objective is to understand the electronic control of chemical reactivity. In this work we report coherent 8-state non-adiabatic electron-nuclear dynamics simulations of the benzene radical cation. The computations were inspired by the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) experimental results in which all 8 electronic states were prepared with significant population. Our objective was to study the nuclear dynamics using various bespoke coherent electronic state superpositions as initial conditions in the Quantum-Ehrenfest method. The original XUV measurements were supported by Multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) simulations, which suggested a model of successive passage through conical intersections. The present computations support a complementary model where non-adiabatic events are seen far from a conical intersection and are controlled by electron dynamics involving non-adjacent adiabatic states. It proves to be possible to identify two superpositions that can be linked with two possible fragmentation paths.

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