Photo- and auger-electron recoil induced dynamics of interatomic Coulombic decay

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jul 17;103(3):033001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.033001. Epub 2009 Jul 13.

Abstract

At photon energies near the Ne K edge it is shown that for 1s ionization the Auger electron, and for 2s ionization the fast photoelectron, launch vibrational wave packets in a Ne dimer. These wave packets then decay by emission of a slow electron via interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD). The measured and computed ICD electron spectra are shown to be significantly modified by the recoil induced nuclear motion.