Nature Communications (May 2016)

Hetero-site-specific X-ray pump-probe spectroscopy for femtosecond intramolecular dynamics

  • A. Picón,
  • C. S. Lehmann,
  • C. Bostedt,
  • A. Rudenko,
  • A. Marinelli,
  • T. Osipov,
  • D. Rolles,
  • N. Berrah,
  • C. Bomme,
  • M. Bucher,
  • G. Doumy,
  • B. Erk,
  • K. R. Ferguson,
  • T. Gorkhover,
  • P. J. Ho,
  • E. P. Kanter,
  • B. Krässig,
  • J. Krzywinski,
  • A. A. Lutman,
  • A. M. March,
  • D. Moonshiram,
  • D. Ray,
  • L. Young,
  • S. T. Pratt,
  • S. H. Southworth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11652
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Two-color X-ray pulses with controlled time delay allow exciting one site of a molecule and then probing a different site of the same molecule with femtosecond resolution. Here, the authors use this hetero-site pump-probe technique to study charge redistribution and dissociation of the xenon difluoride molecule.