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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.198302
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- Career Acceleration Fellowship from the EPSRC [EP/H003541]
- EPSRC [EP/H003541/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H003541/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Coupling of nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom mediates energy flow in molecules after optical excitation. The associated coherent dynamics in polyatomic systems, however, remain experimentally unexplored. Here, we combined transient absorption spectroscopy with electronic population control to reveal nuclear wave packet dynamics during the S-2 -> S-1 internal conversion in beta-carotene. We show that passage through a conical intersection is vibrationally coherent and thereby provides direct feedback on the role of different vibrational coordinates in the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
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