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Strong-Field Electronic Control of Multiple-Bond Breaking Dynamics in Ethylene

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

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We experimentally and theoretically show that by controlling the dynamics of removing three electrons from ethylene with ultrashort intense laser pulses allows for the determination of the relative probabilities for fragmentation into two respectively three molecular moieties.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge financial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grants No. P21463-N22, No. P25615-N27 and No. SFB-F49 NEXTlite, and by a starting grant from the ERC (project CyFi).

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  1. Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Markus Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Andrius Baltuška & Markus Kitzler

  2. Laser Technology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Erik Lötstedt & Katsumi Midorikawa

  3. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Erik Lötstedt & Kaoru Yamanouchi

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

  2. JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Steven Cundiff

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany

    Regina de Vivie-Riedle

  4. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

  5. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Louis DiMauro

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Xie, X. et al. (2015). Strong-Field Electronic Control of Multiple-Bond Breaking Dynamics in Ethylene. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., de Vivie-Riedle, R., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., DiMauro, L. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_36

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