Direct observation of Young's double-slit interferences in vibrationally resolved photoionization of diatomic molecules

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7302-7306

  Canton, Sophie E ^a   Plésiat, Etienne ^b   Bozek, John D ^c   Rude, Bruce S ^d   Decleva, Piero ^e,f   Martín, Fernando ^b,g  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Molecular ionization; Molecular spectroscopy; Photoelectron spectroscopy; Quantum chemistry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IONIZATION; MOLECULE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VIBRATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79956301631     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018534108     Document Type: Article

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