Chemistry: Complete photo-induced breakup of the H2 molecule as a probe of molecular electron correlation

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5755, 2005, Pages 1787-1789

  Vanroose, Wim ^a   Martin, Fernando ^b   Rescigno, Thomas N ^c   McCurdy, C William ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOIONIZATION;

ELECTRON CORRELATION; HYDROGEN MOLECULES; PUZZLING PHENOMENA;

QUANTUM THEORY;

HYDROGEN;

CHEMICAL REACTION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; ELECTRON; ELECTRON CORRELATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REACTION ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

EID: 29144432769     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120263     Document Type: Article

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23. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, the Ministerio de Educatión y Ciencia project BFM2003-00194 (Spain), and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was performed under contract DEAC02-OSCH11231. W.V. is funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office through its action "return grants." We thank Th. Weber for sharing unpublished experimental data shown in Fig. 1C and D. A. Horner for assembling the data on helium double ionization.