Nature Communications (Jan 2020)
Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets
- M. Mudrich,
- A. C. LaForge,
- A. Ciavardini,
- P. O’Keeffe,
- C. Callegari,
- M. Coreno,
- A. Demidovich,
- M. Devetta,
- M. Di Fraia,
- M. Drabbels,
- P. Finetti,
- O. Gessner,
- C. Grazioli,
- A. Hernando,
- D. M. Neumark,
- Y. Ovcharenko,
- P. Piseri,
- O. Plekan,
- K. C. Prince,
- R. Richter,
- M. P. Ziemkiewicz,
- T. Möller,
- J. Eloranta,
- M. Pi,
- M. Barranco,
- F. Stienkemeier
Affiliations
- M. Mudrich
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- A. C. LaForge
- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg
- A. Ciavardini
- CNR-ISM
- P. O’Keeffe
- CNR-ISM
- C. Callegari
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- M. Coreno
- CNR-ISM
- A. Demidovich
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- M. Devetta
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano
- M. Di Fraia
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- M. Drabbels
- Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- P. Finetti
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- O. Gessner
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- C. Grazioli
- CNR-IOM, Istituto Officina dei Materiali
- A. Hernando
- Kido Dynamics
- D. M. Neumark
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Y. Ovcharenko
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- P. Piseri
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano
- O. Plekan
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- K. C. Prince
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- R. Richter
- Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
- M. P. Ziemkiewicz
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- T. Möller
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- J. Eloranta
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University at Northridge
- M. Pi
- Departament FQA, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona
- M. Barranco
- Departament FQA, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona
- F. Stienkemeier
- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13681-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
There is interest in understanding the relaxation mechanisms of photoexcitation in atoms, molecules and other complex systems. Here the authors unravel the photoexcitation and ultrafast relaxation of superfluid helium nanodroplets using a pump-probe experiment with FEL pulses.