Machine learning for laser-induced electron diffraction imaging of molecular structures

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Abstract

Ultrafast diffraction imaging is a powerful tool to retrieve the geometric structure of gas-phase molecules with combined picometre spatial and attosecond temporal resolution. However, structural retrieval becomes progressively difficult with increasing structural complexity, given that a global extremum must be found in a multi-dimensional solution space. Worse, pre-calculating many thousands of molecular configurations for all orientations becomes simply intractable. As a remedy, here, we propose a machine learning algorithm with a convolutional neural network which can be trained with a limited set of molecular configurations. We demonstrate structural retrieval of a complex and large molecule, Fenchone (C10H16O), from laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) data without fitting algorithms or ab initio calculations. Retrieval of such a large molecular structure is not possible with other variants of LIED or ultrafast electron diffraction. Combining electron diffraction with machine learning presents new opportunities to image complex and larger molecules in static and time-resolved studies.

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Liu, X., Amini, K., Sanchez, A., Belsa, B., Steinle, T., & Biegert, J. (2021). Machine learning for laser-induced electron diffraction imaging of molecular structures. Communications Chemistry, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00594-z

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