Ultrafast imaging of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a photoionized molecular system
The Jahn-Teller effect is the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the molecular structure caused by the coupling of electrons and nuclei. Here the authors use ultrafast Coulomb explosion imaging to map the evolution of the fundamental symmetry lowering process in photoionized methane within around 20fs...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24309-z |