Fig. 5: Two-Dimensional projections of the simulated excited state wavepacket density.
Projections (red contours) onto the (C3–C4) distance and the conrotatory deplanarization angle ψ from Fig. 4c for different time delays are shown in the upper row. Analogous projections onto the (C3,C10) distance and ψ are depicted in the lower row. The delays for each column are written in the upper-row plots, the population fraction residing in the excited state is marked in the lower-row plots. For comparison, the α and γ areas of Fig. 3 are marked in yellow and blue. Additionally, the geometries at which population transfer to the ground state ultimately takes place are shown as gray circles with sizes proportional to the relative amount of transferred population. The minimum energy conical intersection geometry is marked as a green circle and the geometry of the pericyclic minimum as a red cross. For an animated version of Fig. 5 see Supplementary Movie 1.
