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Femtosecond probing of sodium cluster ion Na_n ^+ fragmentation
(1992)
We report on the first femtosecond time-resolved experiments in cluster physics. The photofragmentation
dynamics of small sodium cluster ions Na_n ^+ have been studied with pump-probe techniques. Ultrashort
laser pulses of 60-fs duration are employed to photoionize the sodium clusters and to probe the
photofragments. We find that the ejection of neutral dimer Na_2 and, observed for the first time, neutral
trimer Na_3 photofragments occur on ultrashort time scales of 2.5 and 0.4 ps, respectively. This and the
absence ...
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Femtosecond time-resolved molecular multiphoton ionization: the Na_2 system
(1991)
We report here the first experimental study of femtosecond time-resolved molecular multiphoton ionization.
Femtosecond pump-probe techniques are combined with time-of-flight spectroscopy to measure
transient ionization spectra of Na_2 in a molecular-beam experiment. The wave-packet motions in
different molecular potentials show that incoherent contributions from direct photoionization of a singly
excited state and from excitation and autoionization of a bound doubly excited molecular state determine
the observed ...
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Delocalization of a hole in van der Waals clusters: Ionization potential of rare-gas and small Hg_n clusters
(American Physical Society, 1993)
The size dependence of the ionization potential I_p(n) of van der Waals (vdW) bound clusters has been calculated by using a model Hamiltonian, which includes electron hopping, vdW interactions, and charge-dipole interactions. The charge-density and dipole-density distributions for both neutral and ionized n-atom clusters are determined self-consistently. The competition between the polarization energy of the neutral atoms surrounding a partially localized hole and the tendency toward hole delocalization in the ionized ...
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Theory for Optical Absorption in Small Clusters: Dependence on Atomic Structure and Cluster Size
(American Physical Society, 1994)
We present a theory which permits for the first time a detailed analysis of the dependence of the absorption spectrum on atomic structure and cluster size. Thus, we determine the development of the collective excitations in small clusters and show that their broadening depends sensitively on the tomic structure, in particular at the surface. Results for Hg_n^+ clusters show that the plasmon energy is close to its jellium value in the case of spherical-like structures, but is in general between w_p/ \wurzel{3} and ...
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Femtosecond pump-probe study of the spreading and recurrence of a vibrational wave packet in Na_2
(1992)
The motion of a vibrational wave packet in the bound A(^1 \summe^+_u) electronic state of the sodium dimer is detected in a femtosecond pump/probe molecular beam experiment. For short times harmonic motion is seen in the total ion yield of Na^+_2 as a function of delay time between the two laser pulses. The spreading of the wave packet results in the loss of the periodic variation of the ion signal. For longer delay times (47 ps) the wave packet regains its initial form which is reflected in the revival structure of ...
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Spin-polarized Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations in atoms and diatomic molecules with the finite element method
(1990)
We present spin-polarized Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations performed with the highly accurate numerical finite element method for the atoms N and 0 and the diatomic radical OH as examples.
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A clear atomic example for the surface sensitivity of penning ionization
(1990)
Using a crossed-beam apparatus with a double hemispherical electron spectrometer,
we have studied the spectrum of electrons released in thermal energy ionizing collisions of metastable
He^*(2^3S) atoms with ground state Yb(4f^14 6s^2 ^1S_0) atoms, thereby providing the first Penning electron spectrum of an atomic target with-4f-electrons. In contrast to the HeI (58.4nm) and NeI (73.6/74.4nm)
photoelectron spectra of Yb, which show mainly 4f- and 6s-electron emission in about a 5:1 ratio, the He^*(2^3S) Penning ...
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Relativistic effects in physics and chemistry of element 105. [Part] IV.
(1993)
Results of relativistic (Dirac-Slater and Dirac-Fock) and nonrelativistic (Hartree-Fock-Slater) atomic and molecular calculations have been compared for the group 5 elements Nb, Ta, and Ha and their compounds MCl_5, to elucidate the influence of relativistic effects on their
properties especially in going from the 5d element Ta to the 6d element Ha. The analysis of the radial distribution of the valence electrons of the metals for electronic configurations obtained as a result of the molecular calculations and their ...