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SUBMITTER: Schutte B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4634218 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schütte B B Arbeiter M M Fennel T T Jabbari G G Kuleff A I AI Vrakking M J J MJ Rouzée A A
Nature communications 20151015
When an excited atom is embedded into an environment, novel relaxation pathways can emerge that are absent for isolated atoms. A well-known example is interatomic Coulombic decay, where an excited atom relaxes by transferring its excess energy to another atom in the environment, leading to its ionization. Such processes have been observed in clusters ionized by extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray lasers. Here, we report on a correlated electronic decay process that occurs following nanoplasma formatio ...[more]