Spatiotemporal imaging of valence electron motion

Light absorption in matter often induces ultrafast electron dynamics within the system. Here, the authors record a femtosecond movie of the electron density of an argon ion as it oscillates in a quantum beat of two fine-structure states.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Kübel, Z. Dube, A. Yu. Naumov, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, A. Staudte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09036-w