During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

Using short laser pulses, researchers have imaged the exact moment an ammonia molecule bends and sheds a hydrogen atom.

An international research team from Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, Norway, Spain and Japan has made a significant breakthrough in understanding ultrafast electronic dynamics, revealing the ...

Fig. 1 The measured time-resolved KER spectrum (A) and the measured photoion momentum distributions at different delays (B) of O2 molecules. The coupled electronic and nuclear motions within a single ...

Electronic spectroscopy offers a window into the electronic structure of molecules by probing transitions between quantised energy states, while vibrational dynamics characterises the way atoms within ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have reported the first observations of ultrafast electronic dynamics in a system of strongly interacting gold nanoparticles. The observations ...

Nearly a century ago, physicists Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer developed an assumption regarding how quantum mechanics plays out in molecules, which are comprised of intricate systems of nuclei ...