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Manipulating Attosecond Charge Migration in Molecules by Optical Cavities
Yonghao Gu, Bing Gu1, Shichao Sun
1Department of Chemistry, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang, China.
Abstract:
The ultrafast electronic charge dynamics in molecules upon photoionization while the nuclear motions are frozen is known as charge migration. In a theoretical study of the quantum dynamics of photoionized 5-bromo-1-pentene, we show that the charge migration process can be induced and enhanced by placing the molecule in an optical cavity, and can be monitored by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The collective nature of the polaritonic charge migration process is investigated. We find that, unlike spectroscopy, molecular charge dynamics in a cavity is local and does not show many-molecule collective effects. The same conclusion applies to cavity polaritonic chemistry.
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