Attosecond imaging of molecular electronic wavepackets

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 200-206

  Haessler, S ^a   Caillat, J ^b,c   Boutu, W ^a   Giovanetti Teixeira, C ^b,c   Ruchon, T ^a   Auguste, T ^a   Diveki, Z ^a   Breger, P ^a   Maquet, A ^b,c   Carre B ^a   Taeb, R ^b,c   Salieres P ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; X RAYS;

ANGSTROM RESOLUTION; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOFT X-RAY EMISSIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 77950512902     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1511     Document Type: Article

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