Probing the molecular frame of uracil and thymine with high-harmonic generation spectroscopy

Author(s):  
Eleonora Luppi ◽  
Emanuele Coccia

We present here HHG spectra of uracil and thymine, computed by a real-time formulation of configuration interaction with single excitations. Spectra are obtained as three-dimensional and molecular-plane averages, and as single-polarisation responses.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Coccia ◽  
Eleonora Luppi ◽  
Carlo Federico Pauletti

<p>This study arises from the attempt to answer the following question: how different descriptions of electronic exchange and correlation affect the high-harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy of H2, N2 and CO2 molecules? We compare HHG spectra for H2, N2 and CO2 with different ab initio electronic structures methods: real-time time-dependent configuration interaction (RT-TDCIS) and real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) using truncated basis sets composed of correlated wave functions expanded on Gaussian basis sets. In the framework of RT-TDDFT, we employ PBE and LC-ωPBE functionals. We study HHG spectroscopy by disentangling the effect of electronic exchange and correlation. We first analyse the electronic exchange alone and in the case of RT-TDDFT with LC-ωPBE, we use ω = 0.3 and ω = 0.4 to tune the percentage of long-range Hartree-Fock exchange and of short-range exchange PBE. Then, we added the correlation as described by PBE functional. All the methods give very similar HHG spectra and they seem not to be particularly sensitive to the different description of exchange and correlation or to the correct asymptotic behaviour of the Coulomb potential. Despite this general trend, some differences are found in the region connecting the cutoff and the background. Here, the harmonics can be resolved with different accuracy depending on the theoretical schemes used. We believe that the investigation of the molecular continuum and its coupling with strong fields merits further theoretical investigations in the next future. </p>


2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 947-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec F. White ◽  
Chiara Josephine Heide ◽  
Peter Saalfrank ◽  
Martin Head-Gordon ◽  
Eleonora Luppi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Coccia ◽  
Eleonora Luppi ◽  
Carlo Federico Pauletti

<p>This study arises from the attempt to answer the following question: how different descriptions of electronic exchange and correlation affect the high-harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy of H2, N2 and CO2 molecules? We compare HHG spectra for H2, N2 and CO2 with different ab initio electronic structures methods: real-time time-dependent configuration interaction (RT-TDCIS) and real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) using truncated basis sets composed of correlated wave functions expanded on Gaussian basis sets. In the framework of RT-TDDFT, we employ PBE and LC-ωPBE functionals. We study HHG spectroscopy by disentangling the effect of electronic exchange and correlation. We first analyse the electronic exchange alone and in the case of RT-TDDFT with LC-ωPBE, we use ω = 0.3 and ω = 0.4 to tune the percentage of long-range Hartree-Fock exchange and of short-range exchange PBE. Then, we added the correlation as described by PBE functional. All the methods give very similar HHG spectra and they seem not to be particularly sensitive to the different description of exchange and correlation or to the correct asymptotic behaviour of the Coulomb potential. Despite this general trend, some differences are found in the region connecting the cutoff and the background. Here, the harmonics can be resolved with different accuracy depending on the theoretical schemes used. We believe that the investigation of the molecular continuum and its coupling with strong fields merits further theoretical investigations in the next future. </p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Kovalev ◽  
Renato M. A. Dantas ◽  
Semyon Germanskiy ◽  
Jan-Christoph Deinert ◽  
Bertram Green ◽  
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