Imaging of spatial many-body wave functions linear momentum measurements
The equivalence of a complete characterization of linear momenta of fragments from a many-body fragmentation process and the spatial wave function of the many-body system is discussed. Our experiment on three-body dissociation of state selected H 3 and D 3 molecules into ground-state hydrogen atoms...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 2013-12, Vol.16 (2), p.453-457 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The equivalence of a complete characterization of linear momenta of fragments from a many-body fragmentation process and the spatial wave function of the many-body system is discussed. Our experiment on three-body dissociation of state selected H
3
and D
3
molecules into ground-state hydrogen atoms strongly suggests the existence of such a close relationship as it is also predicted by theory in the form of the imaging theorem. We conclude that prudent imaging of many-body fragmentation provides a laboratory view of the squared many-body wave function at a spatial scale of molecular dimensions at which fragments exit into the realm of independent free particles.
Spatial configuration and linear momenta of a dissociating system are related at any time
t
after fragments exit from the reaction zone. |
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ISSN: | 1463-9076 1463-9084 |
DOI: | 10.1039/c3cp53300j |