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Title: Filming and viewing ultrafast motion inside molecules: What do we see and what can we learn?
The electrons and atoms inside molecules can rearrange rapidly during photoexcitation or collisions, moving angstroms in a few femtoseconds or less. This non-classical many-body quantum evolution is far too small and too fast to be resolved in any imaging microscope, but if we could film it, what should we expect to see? New tools based on ultrafast lasers, electron accelerators, and x-ray free-electron lasers have now begun to record this motion with increasing detail, and for a growing array of atomic and molecular systems. Here I will attempt to answer the question, "So what?" What have we learned, and how are molecular movies guiding us toward future discoveries in AMO physics? *Much of this work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division (CSGB). Other work described here has been supported by the National Science Foundation  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1806145
PAR ID:
10463347
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Editor(s):
Liwendowski, H.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Volume:
DAMOP23
ISSN:
0003-0503
Page Range / eLocation ID:
A1.00008
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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