Ultrafast interatomic electronic decay in multiply excited clusters
An ultrafast mechanism belonging to the family of interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) phenomena is proposed. When two excited species are present, an ultrafast energy transfer can take place bringing one of them to its ground state and ionizing the other one. It is shown that if large homoatomic clust...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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23 July 2010
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Physical review letters
Year: 2010, Volume: 105, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-4 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.043004 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.043004 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.043004 
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| Author Notes: | Alexander I. Kuleff, Kirill Gokhberg, Sören Kopelke, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum |
| Summary: | An ultrafast mechanism belonging to the family of interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) phenomena is proposed. When two excited species are present, an ultrafast energy transfer can take place bringing one of them to its ground state and ionizing the other one. It is shown that if large homoatomic clusters are exposed to an ultrashort and intense laser pulse whose photon energy is in resonance with an excitation transition of the cluster constituents, the large majority of ions will be produced by this ICD mechanism rather than by two-photon ionization. A related collective-ICD process that is operative in heteroatomic systems is also discussed. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 08.03.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.043004 |