Simulations of femtosecond X-ray diffraction from unperturbed and rapidly heated single crystals

Abstract

Simulations are presented of the dynamical diffraction of femtosecond pulses of X-rays from crystals whose structures are modified on similar time scales. Such simulations are of relevance to experiments in which short pulses of X-rays from synchrotron or laser sources are diffracted from rapidly laser-heated crystals.