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Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Attosecond soft-X-ray and high-harmonic spectroscopies: bridging the complexity gap
| Date | Di, 19.10.2021 | |
| Time | 16:00 | |
| Speaker | Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner | |
| Location | Online | |
| Program | One of the remaining challenges for attosecond spectroscopy is its extension to complex systems, such as large molecules, molecular aggregates or nanoparticles in solution. X-ray spectroscopy offers an attractive approach to this goal, owing to its element specificity and site sensitivity. In this lecture, I will discuss the development of table-top soft-X-ray spectroscopy and its application to observing the rearrangement of unoccupied molecular states during chemical reactions [1]. The generation of isolated attosecond soft-X-ray pulses with a duration of only 43 attoseconds has established the current world record of the shortest light pulse ever measured [2]. The spectroscopic application of such pulses has revealed the fastest conical-intersection dynamics observed to date, i.e. the sub-7-femtosecond electronic relaxation from the A to the X state in the ethylene cation [3]. Turning from the gas phase to the liquid phase, I will discuss recent results including the observation of suppressed dissociation of ionized pyridine in solution, as well as the ultrafast proton transfer of ionized urea dimers in aqueous solution. These results demonstrate the potential of attosecond soft-X-ray spectroscopy in addressing complex systems. | |
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| Link | New Horizon Solvay Lectures | |
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