Ultrafast dynamics of excited electronic states in nitrobenzene measured by ultrafast transient polarization spectroscopy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12902v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:07:23 GMT
• Title: Ultrafast dynamics of excited electronic states in nitrobenzene measured by ultrafast transient polarization spectroscopy
• Authors: Richard Thurston, Matthew M. Brister, Liang Z. Tan, Elio G. Champenois, Said Bakhti, Pavan Muddukrishna, Thorsten Weber, Ali Belkacem, Daniel S.Slaughter, and Niranjan Shivaram
• Abstract summary: We investigate ultrafast dynamics of the lowest singlet excited electronic state in liquid nitrobenzene. The third-order non-linear response of the excited molecular ensemble is highly sensitive to details of excited state character and geometries. By measuring this response as a function of time delays between the three pulses involved, we extract the dephasing time of the wave-packet on the excited state.
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• Abstract: We investigate ultrafast dynamics of the lowest singlet excited electronic state in liquid nitrobenzene using Ultrafast Transient Polarization Spectroscopy (UTPS), extending the well-known technique of Optical-Kerr Effect (OKE) spectroscopy to excited electronic states. The third-order non-linear response of the excited molecular ensemble is highly sensitive to details of excited state character and geometries and is measured using two femtosecond pulses following a third femtosecond pulse that populates the S1 excited state. By measuring this response as a function of time delays between the three pulses involved, we extract the dephasing time of the wave-packet on the excited state. The dephasing time measured as a function of time-delay after pump excitation shows oscillations indicating oscillatory wave-packet dynamics on the excited state. From the experimental measurements and supporting theoretical calculations, we deduce that the wave-packet completely leaves the S1 state surface after three traversals of the inter-system crossing between the singlet S1 and triplet T2 states.

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