Ultrafast imaging of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a photoionized molecular system

M Li, M Zhang, O Vendrell, Z Guo, Q Zhu, X Gao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Jahn-Teller effect is an essential mechanism of spontaneous symmetry
breaking in molecular and solid state systems, and has far-reaching consequences in many …

On the rearrangement and dissociation mechanism of SiH4+ in its triply-degenerate ground state

T Mondal, AJC Varandas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
An ab initio molecular orbital study has been performed to explore the structural
rearrangement and dissociation of SiH 4+ radical cation at the X ̃ 2 T 2 ground electronic …

Coulomb explosion imaging and covariance analysis of concurrent fragmentation mechanisms

TR Walmsley - 2024 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This thesis uses Coulomb explosion imaging and covariance analysis to characterise
concurrent fragmentation processes generating identical sets of products via different …