Photoionization of furan from the ground and excited electronic states

Ponzi, Aurora; Sapunar, Marin; Angeli, Celestino; Cimiraglia, Renzo; Došlić, Nađa; Decleva, Piero (2016) Photoionization of furan from the ground and excited electronic states. Journal of Chemical Physics, 144 (8). ISSN 0021-9606

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Abstract

Here we present a comparative computational study of the photoionization of furan from the ground and the two lowest-lying excited electronic states. The study aims to assess the quality of the computational methods currently employed for treating bound and continuum states in photoionization. For the ionization from the ground electronic state, we show that the Dyson orbital approach combined with an accurate solution of the continuum one particle wave functions in a multicenter B-spline basis, at the density functional theory (DFT) level, provides cross sections and asymmetry parameters in excellent agreement with experimental data. On the contrary, when the Dyson orbitals approach is combined with the Coulomb and orthogonalized Coulomb treatments of the continuum, the results are qualitatively different. In excited electronic states, three electronic structure methods, TDDFT, ADC(2), and CASSCF, have been used for the computation of the Dyson orbitals, while the continuum was treated at the B-spline/DFT level. We show that photoionization observables are sensitive probes of the nature of the excited states as well as of the quality of excited state wave functions. This paves the way for applications in more complex situations such as time resolved photoionization spectroscopy.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The authors wish to thank D. M. P. Holland for providing us experimental data. This work has been supported by the Unity through Knowledge Fund (UKF B1) and the European COST Action CM1204 XLIC. Computer time was provided by CRONGI and CINECA. AP and MS acknowledge support of the European Union, European Social Fund under Call number HR.3.2.01 for the project Networks for professional training of young scientists in interdisciplinary research of innovative surfaces and materials (MIPoMaT).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy ; perturbation theory ; nonadiabatic dynamics ; polyatomic-molecules ; b-splines ; continuum ; orbitals ; pyrrole adenine
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry > Physical Chemistry NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry > Theoretical Chemistry
Divisions:	Division of Physical Chemistry
Depositing User:	Marin Sapunar
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2019 13:46
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/5175
DOI:	10.1063/1.4941608

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