Figure 3: Electron-pulse simulations where Gaussian wavepackets are injected into the water chain.

The vertical dotted lines mark the edges of FCB for X = 0; the dashed vertical lines mark the range spanned by FCB for ; the solid vertical lines mark this range for . Panel (a) FCB excess electron population for wavepackets with an average energy E at a range of times. Solid lines correspond to the phonon starting at N(0) = 2, dashed lines to N(0) = 0 and dotted lines to the elastic case. Panel (b) phonon occupancy variation ΔN at t = 200 fs for initial N(0) = 0 (dashed) and N(0) = 2 (solid). Panel (c) difference between the inelastic excess electron population with N(0) = 0 and the elastic one at different times, normalized by the elastic case at t = 5 fs. Panel (d) same as panel (c), with the inelastic case of N(0) = 2.