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| author | Li, Xiang Jahnke, Till Boll, Rebecca Han, Jiaqi Xu, Minkai Meyer, Michael Piancastelli, Maria Novella Rolles, Daniel Rudenko, Artem Trinter, Florian Wolf, Thomas J. A. Thayer, Jana B. Cryan, James P. Ermon, Stefano Ho, Phay J. |
| author_facet | Li, Xiang Jahnke, Till Boll, Rebecca Han, Jiaqi Xu, Minkai Meyer, Michael Piancastelli, Maria Novella Rolles, Daniel Rudenko, Artem Trinter, Florian Wolf, Thomas J. A. Thayer, Jana B. Cryan, James P. Ermon, Stefano Ho, Phay J. |
| contents | Capturing the structural changes that molecules undergo during chemical reactions in real space and time is a long-standing dream and an essential prerequisite for understanding and ultimately controlling femtochemistry. A key approach to tackle this challenging task is Coulomb explosion imaging, which benefited decisively from recently emerging high-repetition-rate X-ray free-electron laser sources. With this technique, information on the molecular structure is inferred from the momentum distributions of the ions produced by the rapid Coulomb explosion of molecules. Retrieving molecular structures from these distributions poses a highly non-linear inverse problem that remains unsolved for molecules consisting of more than a few atoms. Here, we address this challenge using a diffusion-based Transformer neural network. We show that the network reconstructs unknown molecular geometries from ion-momentum distributions with a mean absolute error below one Bohr radius, which is half the length of a typical chemical bond. |
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| spellingShingle | Generative Modeling Enables Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging Li, Xiang Jahnke, Till Boll, Rebecca Han, Jiaqi Xu, Minkai Meyer, Michael Piancastelli, Maria Novella Rolles, Daniel Rudenko, Artem Trinter, Florian Wolf, Thomas J. A. Thayer, Jana B. Cryan, James P. Ermon, Stefano Ho, Phay J. Chemical Physics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Capturing the structural changes that molecules undergo during chemical reactions in real space and time is a long-standing dream and an essential prerequisite for understanding and ultimately controlling femtochemistry. A key approach to tackle this challenging task is Coulomb explosion imaging, which benefited decisively from recently emerging high-repetition-rate X-ray free-electron laser sources. With this technique, information on the molecular structure is inferred from the momentum distributions of the ions produced by the rapid Coulomb explosion of molecules. Retrieving molecular structures from these distributions poses a highly non-linear inverse problem that remains unsolved for molecules consisting of more than a few atoms. Here, we address this challenge using a diffusion-based Transformer neural network. We show that the network reconstructs unknown molecular geometries from ion-momentum distributions with a mean absolute error below one Bohr radius, which is half the length of a typical chemical bond. |
| title | Generative Modeling Enables Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging |
| topic | Chemical Physics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00179 |