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Using time-resolved Coulomb-explosion imaging, the authors capture a 600 fs pseudorotation in the benzene cation, revealing coherent vibronic dynamics around a conical intersection and visualizing transient structural variations.

Interatomic Coulombic decay, ICD, is commonly observed in systems weakly bound to different environments. Here the authors discuss the ICD in an electromagnetic cavity and show that the entanglement of atoms can change ICD rates substantially and be used to control the ICD process.

X-ray ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy captures the charge migration in neutral silane molecules, which shows in the spectra as pairs of quantum beats.

The authors study intermolecular Coulomb decay that occurs in a sample of THF and water in a reaction microscope employing triple-coincidence measurements of two ions and one electron. They find that ICD is a previously unconsidered effect between water and other organic molecules that are hydrogen-bonded, with ICD outpacing proton transfer.

The many-body quantum nature of molecules determines their static and dynamic properties, but remains the main obstacle in their accurate description. Here, the authors employ ultrafast spectroscopic methods to explore the dynamics of highly excited organic molecules, revealing many-body effects and hints of coherent vibronic dynamics which persist despite their molecular complexity.

In clusters, relaxation of excited atoms can lead to ionization of nearby atoms, a process known as interatomic Coulomb decay. Here, the authors report on a so far unobserved correlated electronic decay process following Rydberg atom generation in clusters ionized by intense near-infrared fields.

Understanding strong X-ray induced phenomena is important for applications of X-ray free-electron laser imaging. Here, the authors show time-resolved measurements of X-ray free-electron laser induced electronic decay of CH₂I₂ molecule probed with NIR pulses and identify mechanisms behind different transient states lifetimes.

Here the authors report a study measuring lifetimes of core-hole states of ICl molecule using attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. They find that lifetimes depend on the alignment of the orbital relative to the molecular axis.

Intermolecular Coulombic decay driven by resonant Auger decay can be used to produce low-energy electrons selectively from chosen molecular or atomic sites and with tunable energies, with possible applications in radiation therapy.

Low-energy electrons from intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) relaxation can contribute to radiation damage. Here, using multi-particle momentum coincidence spectroscopy and high-level electronic structure calculations, the authors show that the presence of sulfur in inner-valence orbitals leads to an enhancement in the emission of ICD low-energy electrons in thiophene.