Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Spatiotemporal imaging of valence electron motion

  • M. Kübel,
  • Z. Dube,
  • A. Yu. Naumov,
  • D. M. Villeneuve,
  • P. B. Corkum,
  • A. Staudte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09036-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Light absorption in matter often induces ultrafast electron dynamics within the system. Here, the authors record a femtosecond movie of the electron density of an argon ion as it oscillates in a quantum beat of two fine-structure states.