activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

physics.optics2026

Ray-tracing image simulations of transparent objects with complex shape and inhomogeneous refractive index

Armin Kalita, Bryan Oller, Thomas Paula +18

Optical images of transparent three-dimensional objects can be different from a replica of the object's cross section in the image plane due to refraction at the surface or in the…

physics.chem-ph2026

Elucidating Norrish Type-I reactive pathways by ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Martin Graßl, Pablo Unzueta, Andreas E. Hillers-Bendtsen +20

Norrish type I reactions selectively cleave carbon-carbon bonds directly adjacent to carbonyl groups. Despite their broad use in combination with aromatic carbonyls for additive ma…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear reversal of photo-excitation on the attosecond time scale improves ultrafast x-ray diffraction images

Anatoli Ulmer, Phay J. Ho, Bruno Langbehn +28

The advent of isolated and intense sub-femtosecond X-ray pulses enables tracking of quantummechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids. The combination of X-ray spectros…

physics.chem-ph2025

Imaging valence electron rearrangement in a chemical reaction using hard X-ray scattering

Ian Gabalski, Alice Green, Philipp Lenzen +24

We have observed the signatures of valence electron rearrangement in photoexcited ammonia using ultrafast hard X-ray scattering. Time-resolved X-ray scattering is a powerful tool f…

physics.chem-ph2025

Attosecond X-ray Core-level Chronoscopy of Aromatic Molecules

Jia-Bao Ji, Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver +32

Attosecond photoemission or photoionization delays are a unique probe of the structure and the electronic dynamics of matter. However, spectral congestion and spatial delocalizatio…

physics.chem-ph2025

Imaging the Photochemistry of Cyclobutanone using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Experimental Results

A. E. Green, Y. Liu, F. Allum +27

We investigated the ultrafast structural dynamics of cyclobutanone following photoexcitation at nm using gas-phase megaelectronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction. Our inv…