Interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) is a nonlocal electronic decay
mechanism occurring in weakly bound matter. In an ICD process, energy released by …

Free-electron lasers produce extremely brief, coherent, and bright laser-like photon pulses
that allow to image matter at atomic resolution and at timescales faster than the …

In pioneering work by Cederbaum et al an excitation mechanism was proposed that occurs
only in loosely bound matter (Cederbaum et al 1997 Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 4778): it turned out …

Cell and gene damage caused by ionizing radiation has been studied for many years. It is
accepted that DNA lesions (single-and double-strand breaks, for example) are induced by …

Non-covalently bound aromatic systems are ubiquitous and govern the physicochemical
properties of various organic materials. They are important to many phenomena of biological …

Intermolecular interactions involving aromatic rings are ubiquitous in biochemistry and they
govern the properties of many organic materials. Nevertheless, our understanding of the …

In weakly bound systems like liquids and clusters electronically excited states can relax in
inter-particle reactions via the interplay of electronic and nuclear dynamics. Here we report …

Over the last 20 years, XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled a wide variety of
time-resolved experiments that have dramatically advanced our understanding of ultrafast …

Abstract Short wavelength Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) are among the newest light sources
available to scientists to probe a wide range of phenomena, with chemical, physical and …

During the past 15 years a novel decay mechanism of excited atoms has been discovered
and investigated. This so-called interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) involves the chemical …