Observation of Double Excitations in the Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering of Nitric Oxide

Adam E.A. Fouda, Linsey C. Seitz, Dirk Hauschild, Monika Blum, Wanli Yang, Clemens Heske, Lothar Weinhardt, Nicholas A. Besley, Lothar Weinhardt, Nicholas A. Besley

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Abstract

The nitrogen K-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) map of nitric oxide (NO) has been measured and simulated to provide a detailed analysis of the observed features. High-resolution experimental RIXS maps were collected using an in situ gas flow cell and a high-transmission soft X-ray spectrometer. Accurate descriptions of the ground, excited, and core-excited states are based upon restricted active space self-consistent-field calculations using second order multiconfigurational perturbation theory. The nitrogen K-edge RIXS map of NO shows a range of features that can be assigned to intermediate states arising from 1s → π∗ and 1s → Rydberg excitations; additional bands are attributed to doubly excited intermediate states comprising 1s → π∗ and π→ π∗ excitations. These results provide a detailed picture of RIXS for an open-shell molecule and an extensive description of the core-excited electronic structure of NO, an important molecule in many chemical and biological processes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7476-7482
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume11
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 17 2020

Funding

The authors wish to thank the Leverhulme Trust for providing financial support (Grant RPG-2016-103). This research used resources of the Advanced Light Source, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231. A.E.A.F. also acknowledges support by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences through Argonne National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. L.S. acknowledges support from the Helmholtz Association via Grant PD-326. The authors also wish to thank Doug Taube at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, without whom these experiments would not have been possible.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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