Abstract
Four-dimensional imaging of charge migration is crucial to the understanding of several ubiquitous processes in nature. The present work focuses on imaging of charge migration in an oriented epoxypropane: a chiral molecule. A linearly polarized pulse is used to induce the charge migration, which is imaged by time-resolved x-ray diffraction. It is found that the total time-resolved diffraction signals are significantly different for both enantiomers. Furthermore, a connection between time-resolved x-ray diffraction and the electronic continuity equation is discussed by analyzing the time-dependent diffraction signal and the time derivative of the total electron density in the momentum space.
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