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most citedDifferentiating Three-Dimensional Molecular Structures using Laser-induced Coulomb Explosion Imaging

30 citations · 70 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Heteroatom Position Controls Ultrafast Photodynamics of Oxazole and Isoxazole

Briony Downes-Ward, Paul Javed, Huynh V. S. Lam +27

The ultrafast photochemistry of heterocyclic compounds is central to photobiology and materials chemistry, yet direct experimental observation of their structural dynamics remains…

physics.chem-ph2026

X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces

Samuel Sahel-Schackis, Adam Summers, Ritika Dagar +29

The trihydrogen cation () initiates the ion-molecule reactions that build molecular complexity in interstellar space. Whether its canonical formation reaction, $\ma…

physics.chem-ph2026

Neural Network Based Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging Data

Amirhossein Ghanaatian, Aravinth K. Ravi, Joshua Stallbaumer +6

Determining the structure and following the structural evolution of molecules undergoing chemical reactions is one of the key goals of ultrafast molecular physics and chemistry. Re…

physics.chem-ph2026

Probing the structure of cyclic hydrocarbon molecules with X-ray-induced Coulomb explosion imaging

Kurtis D. Borne, Rebecca Boll, Thomas M. Baumann +27

Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) is a powerful experimental technique that maps a molecule's geometric structure onto the momenta of ionic molecular fragments produced by rapid mult…

physics.atom-ph2025

Time-domain measurement of Auger electron dynamics in xenon atoms after giant resonant photoionization

Mahmudul Hasan, Jingsong Gao, Hao Liang +7

Time-resolved measurement of Auger-Meitner (AM) decay [Nature 419, 803 (2002)] marked a milestone in the development of attosecond science. To date, the time constants for the AM d…

physics.atm-clus2025

Decoding Molecular Geometries in Coulomb Explosion Imaging via Physics-Informed Deep Neural Network

Xingyu Guo, Enliang Wang, Wenguang Wu +8

Determining the absolute configuration of gas-phase molecules in position-space has long been a fundamental challenge in molecular physics. While strong-field-induced Coulomb explo…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Unraveling real-time chemical shifts in the ultrafast regime

Daniel E. Rivas, Lorenzo Paoloni, Rebecca Boll +21

Traditional x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) relies upon a direct mapping between the photoelectron binding energies and the local chemical environment, which is well-charact…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 4 cited

Generative Modeling Enables Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging

Xiang Li, Till Jahnke, Rebecca Boll +12

Capturing the structural changes that molecules undergo during chemical reactions in real space and time is a long-standing dream and an essential prerequisite for understanding an…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Exploiting correlations in multi-coincidence Coulomb explosion patterns for differentiating molecular structures using machine learning

Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Loren Greenman, Joshua Stallbaumer +3

Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) is a powerful technique for capturing the real-time motion of individual atoms during ultrafast photochemical reactions. CEI generates high-dimensio…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 3 cited

Imaging transient molecular configurations in UV-excited diiodomethane

Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Huynh Van Sa Lam, Surjendu Bhattacharyya +6

Femtosecond structural dynamics of diiodomethane () triggered by ultraviolet (UV) photoabsorption at 290 nm and 330 nm are studied using time-resolved coincident…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Attosecond Coherent Electron Motion in a Photoionized Aromatic Molecule

Taran Driver, Zhaoheng Guo, Erik Isele +50

In molecular systems, the ultrafast motion of electrons initiates the process of chemical change. Tracking this electronic motion across molecules requires coupling attosecond time…

physics.atm-clus2024★ 30 cited

Differentiating Three-Dimensional Molecular Structures using Laser-induced Coulomb Explosion Imaging

Huynh Van Sa Lam, Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Surjendu Bhattacharyya +8

Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) with x-ray free electron lasers has recently been shown to be a powerful method for obtaining detailed structural information of gas-phase planar ri…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

Simultaneous imaging of vibrational, rotational, and electronic wave packet dynamics in a triatomic molecule

Huynh Van Sa Lam, Van-Hung Hoang, Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam +9

Light-induced molecular dynamics often involve the excitation of several electronic, vibrational, and rotational states. Since the ensuing electronic and nuclear motion determines…

physics.chem-ph2024

X-ray Coulomb explosion imaging reveals role of molecular structure in internal conversion

Till Jahnke, Sebastian Mai, Surjendu Bhattacharyya +26

Molecular photoabsorption results in an electronic excitation/ionization which couples to the rearrangement of the nuclei. The resulting intertwined change of nuclear and electroni…

physics.chem-ph2024

Controlled molecule injector for cold, dense, and pure molecular beams at the European x-ray free-electron laser

Lanhai He, Melby Johny, Thomas Kierspel +27

A permanently available molecular-beam injection setup for controlled molecules (COMO) was installed and commissioned at the small quantum systems (SQS) instrument at the European…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental Demonstration of Attosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy with an X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver, Sandra Beauvarlet +47

Pump-probe experiments with sub-femtosecond resolution are the key to understanding electronic dynamics in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate the generation and control of sub-fe…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 21 cited

Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction

Joao Pedro Figueira Nunes, Lea Maria Ibele, Shashank Pathak +31

Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Time-Resolved Coulomb Explosion Imaging Unveils Ultrafast Ring Opening of Furan

Enliang Wang, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Keyu Chen +10

Following the changes in molecular structure throughout the entirety of a chemical reaction with atomic resolution is a long-term goal in femtochemistry. Although the development o…