Double Core Hole Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: A Theoretical Exploration Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
arXiv:1907.10000 · doi:10.1063/1.5111141
Abstract
With the help of newly developed X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) sources, creating double core holes simultaneously at the same or different atomic sites in a molecule has now become possible. Double core hole (DCH) X-ray emission is a new form of X-ray nonlinear spectroscopy that can be studied with a XFEL. Here we computationally explore the metal K-edge valence-to-core (VtC) X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) of metal/metal and metal/ligand double core hole states in a series of transition metal complexes with time-dependent density functional theory. The simulated DCH VtC-XES signals are compared with conventional single core hole (SCH) XES signals. The energy shifts and intensity changes of the DCH emission lines with respect to the corresponding SCH-XES features are fingerprints of the coupling between the second core hole and the occupied orbitals around the DCHs that contain important chemical bonding information of the complex. The core hole localization effect on DCH VtC-XES is also briefly discussed. We theoretically demonstrate that DCH XES provides subtle information on the local electronic structure around metal centers in transition metal complexes beyond conventional linear XES. Our predicted changes from calculations between SCH-XES and DCH-XES features should be detectable with modern XFEL sources.
arXiv commentSubmitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics on May 23, 2019
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