High Harmonic Spectroscopy: High harmonic spectroscopy sees quantum interference in molecular dissociation

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High harmonic spectroscopy sees quantum interference in molecular dissociation

When gas-phase bromine is dissociated with a 400-nm laser pulse, its internuclear separation can be measured by high harmonic spectroscopy.  Quantum interference between the two atoms is seen as a minimum in the emission.

H. J. Worner, J. B. Bertrand, D. V. Kartashov, P. B. Corkum and D. M. Villeneuve,
Following a chemical reaction using high-harmonic spectroscopy,
Nature (London) 466, 604 (2010)

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