Direct Observation of Nonchaotic Multilevel Vibrational Energy Flow in Isolated Polyatomic Molecules

Peter M. Felker and Ahmed H. Zewail
Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 501 – Published 30 July 1984
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Abstract

With picosecond spectroscopy and molecular beams it is shown that nonchaotic multilevel vibrational energy flow is present in large polyatomic molecules. This Letter reports on this novel observation and its probing of the fundamental process of energy redistribution in molecules.

  • Received 11 May 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.501

©1984 American Physical Society

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Peter M. Felker and Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 92215

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Vol. 53, Iss. 5 — 30 July 1984

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