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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13681-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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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.