Fig. 4: Schematic of the bifurcating reaction.
The relevant local minima of the \({{{{{{\rm{SiH}}}}}^{+}_{4}}}\) system (from ref. 36) are plotted as a function of energy vertically and according to the reaction path horizontally. The symmetry and geometry of each minima is also shown. The dotted curves represent the reaction paths that transform one geometry into another and are labelled according to the symmetry of the vibrational mode (in the Td point group) that dominates them. The strong-field ionisation of the pump pulse is represented by the orange arrow while the purple arrows represent the probing of the different states with the delayed isolated attosecond SXR pulse. The spectral regions in which the respective state absorb are indicated as well. The experimentally determined timescales of the reactions are specified at the bottom of the figure.
