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ASTRA: a Transition-Density-Matrix Approach to Molecular Ionization

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Luca Argenti, Juan Martín Randazzo, carlos maranthe, Jeppe Olsen, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Barry I. Schneider

Abstract

We describe ASTRA (AttoSecond TRAnsitions), a new close-coupling approach to molecular ionization that uses many-body transition density matrices between ionic states with arbitrary spin and symmetry, in combination with hybrid integrals between Gaussian and numerical orbitals, to efficiently evaluate photoionization observables. Within the TDM approach, the evaluation of interchannel coupling is exact and does not depend on the size of the configuration-interaction space of the ions. Thanks to these two crucial features, ASTRA opens the way to studying highly correlated and comparatively large targets at a manageable computational cost. Here, ASTRA is used to predict the parameters of bound and autoionizing states of the boron atom and of the N2 molecule, as well as the total photoionization cross section of boron, N2 and formaldehyde, H2CO. Our results are in excellent agreement with available theoretical and experimental values from the literature. As a proof of principle of ASTRA's ability to tackle larger targets, we report preliminary results for the photoionization cross section of magnesium-porphyrin (MgH12C20N4), a biologically relevant metallorganic complex with as many as 37 atoms.
Citation
Physical Review Research
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Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043115
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Keywords

attosecond spectroscopy, time-dependent Schroedinger equation, molecular photoionization, transition density matrices
Physics

Citation

Argenti, L. , Randazzo, J. , maranthe, C. , Olsen, J. , Chattopadhyay, S. and Schneider, B. (2023), ASTRA: a Transition-Density-Matrix Approach to Molecular Ionization, Physical Review Research, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043115, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=956192 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created November 3, 2023, Updated March 27, 2024
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