Imaging the Breakdown of Molecular-Frame Dynamics through Rotational Uncoupling
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2017-07-05 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate the breakdown of molecular-frame dynamics induced by the uncoupling of molecular rotation from electronic motion in molecular Rydberg states. We observe this non-Born-Oppenheimer regime in the time domain through photoelectron imaging of a coherent molecular Rydberg wave packet in . The photoelectron angular distribution shows a radically different time evolution than that of a typical molecular-frame-fixed electron orbital, revealing the uncoupled motion of the electron as it precesses around the anisotropic potential of the rotating ion-core.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.02663,
title = {Imaging the Breakdown of Molecular-Frame Dynamics through Rotational Uncoupling},
author = {Lucas J. Zipp and Adi Natan and Philip H. Bucksbaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02663},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures