Interatomic Coulombic Decay


In addition to photoemision from an excited atom and the emission of an Auger-electron, Interatomic Coulombis decay provides a third, additional decay mechanism, predicted by Cederbaum et al. In that case the deexcitation energy is transferred to a neighboring atom, which releases it by emission of its most loosely bound electron.


Photoionization of the helium dimer – how to ionize two atoms with a single photon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153401 (2010)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133401 (2010)

Experimental Observation of Interatomic Coulombic Decay (ICD) in Neon Dimers
Phys. Rev. Lett., 93(2004)163401

Intermolecular Coulombic Decay in water dimers - observation of an ultrafast decay mechanism
Nature Physics (2010), doi:10.1038/NPHYS1498
or the original submitted version of this paper (pdf)

The breakup of helium dimers investigated in fast ion collisions

Enhanced production of low energy electrons by alpha particle impact
PNAS (2011) vol. 108, no. 29, 11821-11824

A molecular movie of interatomic Coulombic decay
PRL 111, 093401 (2013)

A Single Atom Antenna
Physical Review Letters, 111, 233004 (2013)

Resonant Auger decay driving intermolecular Coulombic decay in molecular dimers
Nature 505, 664 (2014)
DOI: 10.1038/nature12927