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. 2010 Apr 26;11(4):1888–1929. doi: 10.3390/ijms11041888

Figure 21.

Figure 21.

Schemes of relaxation processes when the set of Cars (n = 9–11) is coherently excited with ∼30 fs pulses to the 1Bu+(0) + X(υ) diabatic pairs (for the notation of X(υ), see the caption of Figure 19): The initial set of stimulated emissions can be explained in terms of quantum beat. In Car (n = 10), for example, it consists of (i) the persistent stimulated emission from the 1Bu+(0) + 1Bu(2) diabatic pair as the coherent cross term, (ii) the short-lived 1Bu+(0) stimulated emission as one of the split incoherent terms and (iii) the short-lived 1Bu(0) stimulated emission as the other split incoherent term. Also, the 1Bu+(0) species internally-converts to 1Bu(2) and, then, vibrationally-relaxes to the 1Bu(0) species, which gives rise to transient absorption. In Car (n = 11), 1Bu(2) is replaced by 3Ag(1) in (i) and (iii).