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Pulse shape and molecular orientation determine the attosecond charge migration in Caffeine

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The recent reduction of laser pulse duration down to the attosecond regime offers unprecedented opportunities to investigate ultrafast changes in the electron density before nuclear motion sets in. Here, we investigate the hole dynamics in the Caffeine molecule that is induced by an ionizing XUV pulse of 6 fs duration using the approximate time-dependent density functional theory method TD-DFTB. In order to account for ionization in a localized atomic orbital basis we apply a complex absorbing potential to model the continuum. Propagation of the time-dependent Kohn–Sham equations allows us to extract the time-dependent hole density taking the pulse shape explicitly into account. Results show that the sudden ionization picture, which is often used to motivate an uncorrelated initial state, fails for realistic pulses. We further find a strong dependence of the hole dynamics on the polarization of the laser field. Notwithstanding, we observe fs charge migration between two distant functional groups in Caffeine even after averaging over the molecular orientation.

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    Thomas A. Niehaus, Mehdi Meziane, Franck Lepine & Alexandre Marciniak

  2. Tohoku University, Institute for Materials Research, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan

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  3. Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Special Issue in honor of Hardy Gross”, edited by C.A. Ullrich, F.M.S. Nogueira, A. Rubio, and M.A.L. Marques.

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Niehaus, T.A., Meziane, M., Lepine, F. et al. Pulse shape and molecular orientation determine the attosecond charge migration in Caffeine. Eur. Phys. J. B 91, 152 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-90223-5

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