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Fingerprints of electronic, spin and structural dynamics from resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering in transient photo-chemical species.


ABSTRACT: We describe how inversion symmetry separation of electronic state manifolds in resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering (RIXS) can be applied to probe excited-state dynamics with compelling selectivity. In a case study of Fe L3-edge RIXS in the ferricyanide complex Fe(CN)63-, we demonstrate with multi-configurational restricted active space spectrum simulations how the information content of RIXS spectral fingerprints can be used to unambiguously separate species of different electronic configurations, spin multiplicities, and structures, with possible involvement in the decay dynamics of photo-excited ligand-to-metal charge-transfer. Specifically, we propose that this could be applied to confirm or reject the presence of a hitherto elusive transient Quartet species. Thus, RIXS offers a particular possibility to settle a recent controversy regarding the decay pathway, and we expect the technique to be similarly applicable in other model systems of photo-induced dynamics.

SUBMITTER: Norell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885270 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fingerprints of electronic, spin and structural dynamics from resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering in transient photo-chemical species.

Norell Jesper J   Jay Raphael M RM   Hantschmann Markus M   Eckert Sebastian S   Guo Meiyuan M   Gaffney Kelly J KJ   Wernet Philippe P   Lundberg Marcus M   Föhlisch Alexander A   Odelius Michael M  

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 20180301 10


We describe how inversion symmetry separation of electronic state manifolds in resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering (RIXS) can be applied to probe excited-state dynamics with compelling selectivity. In a case study of Fe L<sub>3</sub>-edge RIXS in the ferricyanide complex Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub><sup>3-</sup>, we demonstrate with multi-configurational restricted active space spectrum simulations how the information content of RIXS spectral fingerprints can be used to unambiguously separate species  ...[more]

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