Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Selective gating to vibrational modes through resonant X-ray scattering

  • Rafael C. Couto,
  • Vinícius V. Cruz,
  • Emelie Ertan,
  • Sebastian Eckert,
  • Mattis Fondell,
  • Marcus Dantz,
  • Brian Kennedy,
  • Thorsten Schmitt,
  • Annette Pietzsch,
  • Freddy F. Guimarães,
  • Hans Ågren,
  • Faris Gel’mukhanov,
  • Michael Odelius,
  • Victor Kimberg,
  • Alexander Föhlisch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14165
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Investigating dynamics of polyatomic molecules is difficult as their potential energy surfaces are multidimensional due to coupled degrees of freedom. Here the authors demonstrate a spatial selective gating technique to probe the different vibrational modes of water upon core-level excitation with X-rays.