X-ray diffractive imaging of highly ionized helium nanodroplets

Finding the lowest energy configuration of N unit charges on a sphere, known as Thomson's problem, is a long-standing query which has only been studied via numerical simulations. We present its physical realization using multiply charged He nanodroplets. The charge positions are determined by x...

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Main Authors: Alexandra J. Feinberg, Felix Laimer, Rico Mayro P. Tanyag, Björn Senfftleben, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Simon Dold, Michael Gatchell, Sean M. O. O’Connell-Lopez, Swetha Erukala, Catherine A. Saladrigas, Benjamin W. Toulson, Andreas Hoffmann, Ben Kamerin, Rebecca Boll, Alberto De Fanis, Patrik Grychtol, Tommaso Mazza, Jacobo Montano, Kiana Setoodehnia, David Lomidze, Robert Hartmann, Philipp Schmidt, Anatoli Ulmer, Alessandro Colombo, Michael Meyer, Thomas Möller, Daniela Rupp, Oliver Gessner, Paul Scheier, Andrey F. Vilesov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-06-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022063