Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Dynamics of valence-shell electrons and nuclei probed by strong-field holography and rescattering

  • Samuel G. Walt,
  • Niraghatam Bhargava Ram,
  • Marcos Atala,
  • Nikolay I Shvetsov-Shilovski,
  • Aaron von Conta,
  • Denitsa Baykusheva,
  • Manfred Lein,
  • Hans Jakob Wörner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15651
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Capturing ultrafast molecular dynamics is difficult as the process involves coupled and very fast motions of electrons and nuclei. Here the authors study non-adiabatic dynamics in the NO molecule using strong-field photoelectron holography to shed light on the valence-shell electron dynamics.