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Ultrafast molecular sciences by femtosecond photons and electrons

Recent developments in modern femtosecond spectroscopy and four-dimensional electron microscopy using mid-IR, Vis, UV, X-Ray, and electron pulses with durations on the femtosecond and attosecond timescales have enabled many new studies of ultrafast processes in complex systems. This special issue is aimed at capturing experimental and theoretical advances in this active and fast evolving research field. Topics of interest include reaction dynamics in gas, liquid, materials and at interfaces, charge transfer processes, primary processes in biology, and structural dynamics with ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging.

Guest Editors: Dongping Zhong and Marcos Dantus

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

Exploring the light-induced dynamics in solvated metallogrid complexes with femtosecond pulses across the electromagnetic spectrum

Maria A. Naumova; Aleksandr Kalinko; Joanne W. L. Wong; Sol Alvarez Gutierrez; Jie Meng; Mingli Liang; Mohamed Abdellah; Huifang Geng; Weihua Lin; Katharina Kubicek; Mykola Biednov; Frederico Lima; Andreas Galler; Peter Zalden; Stefano Checchia; Pierre-Adrien Mante; Jennifer Zimara; Dirk Schwarzer; Serhiy Demeshko; Vadim Murzin; David Gosztola; Martin Jarenmark; Jianxin Zhang; Matthias Bauer; Max Latevi Lawson Daku; Dmitry Khakhulin; Wojciech Gawelda; Christian Bressler; Franc Meyer; Kaibo Zheng; Sophie E. Canton

10.1063/1.5138641

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

A wave packet picture of exciton–exciton annihilation: Molecular dimer dynamics

J. Süß; V. Engel

10.1063/1.5134534

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

Dynamics of rare gas solids irradiated by electron beams

J. Candanedo; C. Caleman; N. Tîmneanu; O. Beckstein; J. C. H. Spence

10.1063/1.5134801

Surfaces, Interfaces, and Materials

Coherent phonon generation in laser-heated gold nanofilm

Xuan Wang; Junjie Li; Jianming Cao

10.1063/1.5137818

Advanced Experimental Techniques

Edge-pixel referencing suppresses correlated baseline noise in heterodyned spectroscopies

Kevin C. Robben; Christopher M. Cheatum

10.1063/1.5134987

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

Substituent effects on nonadiabatic excited state dynamics: Inertial, steric, and electronic effects in methylated butadienes

Ryan J. MacDonell; María E. Corrales; Andrey E. Boguslavskiy; Luis Bañares; Albert Stolow; Michael S. Schuurman

10.1063/1.5139446

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

X-ray diffractive imaging of controlled gas-phase molecules: Toward imaging of dynamics in the molecular frame

Thomas Kierspel; Andrew Morgan; Joss Wiese; Terry Mullins; Andy Aquila; Anton Barty; Richard Bean; Rebecca Boll; Sébastien Boutet; Philip Bucksbaum; Henry N. Chapman; Lauge Christensen; Alan Fry; Mark Hunter; Jason E. Koglin; Mengning Liang; Valerio Mariani; Adi Natan; Joseph Robinson; Daniel Rolles; Artem Rudenko; Kirsten Schnorr; Henrik Stapelfeldt; Stephan Stern; Jan Thøgersen; Chun Hong Yoon; Fenglin Wang; Jochen Küpper

10.1063/1.5133963

Advanced Experimental Techniques

Reversible intermolecular-coupled-intramolecular (RICI) proton transfer occurring on the reaction-radius a of 2-naphthol-6,8-disulfonate photoacid

Ehud Pines; Dina Pines; Oren Gajst; Dan Huppert

10.1063/1.5134760

Surfaces, Interfaces, and Materials

Photoexcited organic molecules en route to highly efficient autoionization

Sesha Vempati; Lea Bogner; Clemens Richter; Jan-Christoph Deinert; Laura Foglia; Lukas Gierster; Julia Stähler

10.1063/1.5136075

Advanced Experimental Techniques

2D-IR studies of cyanamides (NCN) as spectroscopic reporters of dynamics in biomolecules: Uncovering the origin of mysterious peaks

Farzaneh Chalyavi; Olajumoke Adeyiga; Julia M. Weiner; Judith N. Monzy; Andrew J. Schmitz; Justin K. Nguyen; Edward E. Fenlon; Scott H. Brewer; Samuel O. Odoh; Matthew J. Tucker

10.1063/1.5138654

Theoretical Methods and Algorithms

Angular dependence of strong field sequential double ionization for neon and acetylene simulated with time-dependent configuration interaction using CIS and CISD-IP

Mi Kyung Lee; Wen Li; H. Bernhard Schlegel

10.1063/1.5133659

Biological Molecules and Networks

Nonequilibrium dynamics of photoinduced forward and backward electron transfer reactions

Yangyi Lu; Dongping Zhong

10.1063/1.5132814

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

Competition between ring-puckering and ring-opening excited state reactions exemplified on 5H-furan-2-one and derivatives

Oliver Schalk; Joachim Galiana; Ting Geng; Tobias L. Larsson; Richard D. Thomas; Ignacio Fdez. Galván; Tony Hansson; Morgane Vacher

10.1063/1.5129366

Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters

Strong-field control of H 3 + production from methanol dications: Selecting between local and extended formation mechanisms

Naoki Iwamoto; Charles J. Schwartz; Bethany Jochim; Kanaka Raju P.; Peyman Feizollah; J. L. Napierala; T. Severt; S. N. Tegegn; A. Solomon; S. Zhao; Huynh Lam; Tomthin Nganba Wangjam; V. Kumarappan; K. D. Carnes; I. Ben-Itzhak; E. Wells

10.1063/1.5129946

Advanced Experimental Techniques