Ultrafast Phenomena in Molecular Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Molecular Movies from Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distribution (MF-PAD) Measurements

   • Arnaud Rouzée, Ymkje Huismans, Freek Kelkensberg, Aneta Smolkowska, Julia H. Jungmann, Arjan Gijsbertsen et al.

   Pages 1-24

3. XUV Lasers for Ultrafast Electronic Control in H2

   • Alicia Palacios, Paula Rivière, Alberto González-Castrillo, Fernando Martín

   Pages 25-48

4. Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrogen Atoms in Hydrocarbon Molecules in Intense Laser Fields: Hydrogen Atom Migration and Scrambling in Methylacetylene

   • Tomoya Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi

   Pages 49-60

5. Femtosecond Photodissociation Dynamics by Velocity Map Imaging. The Methyl Iodide Case

   • Rebeca de Nalda, Luis Rubio-Lago, Vincent Loriot, Luis Bañares

   Pages 61-97

6. Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Excited State Dynamics

   • Roman Spesyvtsev, Jonathan G. Underwood, Helen H. Fielding

   Pages 99-117

7. Biomolecules, Photostability and ¹ πσ ^∗ States: Linking These with Femtochemistry

   • Gareth M. Roberts, Vasilios G. Stavros

   Pages 119-143

8. Ultrafast Laser-Induced Processes Described by Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

   • Leticia González, Philipp Marquetand, Martin Richter, Jesús González-Vázquez, Ignacio Sola

   Pages 145-170

9. Ultrafast Ionization and Fragmentation: From Small Molecules to Proteomic Analysis

   • Marcos Dantus, Christine L. Kalcic

   Pages 171-203

10. On the Investigation of Excited State Dynamics with (Pump-)Degenerate Four Wave Mixing

    • Tiago Buckup, Jan P. Kraack, Marie S. Marek, Marcus Motzkus

    Pages 205-230

11. Surface-Aligned Femtochemistry: Molecular Reaction Dynamics on Oxide Surfaces

    • Mihai E. Vaida, Thorsten M. Bernhardt

    Pages 231-261

12. Optical Diagnostics with Ultrafast and Strong Field Raman Techniques

    • Frederic Chaussard, Bruno Lavorel, Edouard Hertz, Olivier Faucher

    Pages 263-281

13. Back Matter

    Pages 283-287

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This book presents the latest developments in Femtosecond Chemistry and Physics for the study of ultrafast photo-induced molecular processes. Molecular systems, from the simplest H2 molecule to polymers or biological macromolecules, constitute central objects of interest for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and despite the broad range of phenomena that they exhibit, they share some common behaviors. One of the most significant of those is that many of the processes involving chemical transformation (nuclear reorganization, bond breaking, bond making) take place in an extraordinarily short time, in or around the femtosecond temporal scale (1 fs = 10-15 s). A number of experimental approaches - very particularly the developments in the generation and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses - coupled with theoretical progress, provide the ultrafast scientist with powerful tools to understand matter and its interaction with light, at this spatial and temporal scale. This book is an attempt to reunite some of the state-of-the-art research that is being carried out in the field of ultrafast molecular science, from theoretical developments, through new phenomena induced by intense laser fields, to the latest techniques applied to the study of molecular dynamics.

• Attophysics
• Femtosecond Reaction Dynamics
• Molecular Sciences
• Surface-aligned Femtochemistry
• Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Ultrafast Laser-induced Processes
• Ultrafast Phenomena
• Ultrafast Photo-induced Molecular Processes
• XUV Lasers for Ultrafast Electronic Control

• Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

  Rebeca Nalda

• Department of Physical Chemistry Faculty of Chemistry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Luis Bañares

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