Coherent Response of Hydrogen Bonds in Liquids Probed by Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy

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Abstract

We report the first observation of coherent vibrational dynamics in a hydrogen bond obtained by femtosecond nonlinear measurements in the mid-infrared spectral range. The results provide the first experimental evidence in the time domain for the anharmonic coupling of slow and fast vibrational motions in a hydrogen bond. We show that the absorption band of the high-frequency hydrogen stretching (O−H/O−D) vibration is modulated by a coherent oscillatory motion corresponding to a periodic variation of the hydrogen bond length and its strength. This mechanism, which is of general relevance for hydrogen bonds, is connected with underdamped low-frequency vibrationsin contrast to the assumption of overdamped nuclear motions in most theoretical treatments.

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