Ultralong-range energy transfer by interatomic Coulombic decay in an extreme quantum system

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 508-511

  Sisourat, Nicolas ^a   Kryzhevoi, Nikolai V ^a   Kolorenč, Přemysl ^b   Scheit, Simona ^c   Jahnke, Till ^d   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HELIUM; HYDROGEN BONDS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; EXCHANGE ENERGY; HYDROGEN BONDED SYSTEMS; INTERATOMIC COULOMBIC DECAY; NONRADIATIVE DECAY PROCESS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; VAN DER WAALS CLUSTERS;

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EID: 77954348582     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1685     Document Type: Article

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