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Imaging electronic quantum motion with light
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Imaging the quantum motion of electrons not only in real-time, but also in real-space is essential to understand for example bond breaking and formation in molecules, and charge migration in peptides and biological systems. Time-resolved imaging interrogates the unfolding electronic motion in such systems. We find that scattering patterns, obtained by X-ray time-resolved imaging from an electronic wavepacket, encode spatial and temporal correlations that deviate substantially from the common notion of the instantaneous electronic density as the key quantity being probed. Surprisingly, the patterns provide an unusually visual manifestation of the quantum nature of light. This quantum nature becomes central only for non-stationary electronic states and has profound consequences for time-resolved imaging.
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- Authors
- Dixit, G., Vendrell, O., & Santra, R.
- Affiliations
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2012-07-02
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 29
- Pages
- 11636-11640
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC3406851
- OpenAlex
- W2533628335
- Cited by
- 177
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- 43
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- FWCI
- 7.11
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- journal article
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Keywords
- time-resolved X-ray imaging, electron wave packets, spatio-temporal correlation, quantum nature of light, bond breaking and formation, charge migration
- MeSH terms
- Electrons, Light, Models, Chemical, Quantum Theory, Radiography, Scattering, Radiation
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