Many-Particle Quantum Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVIII

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2. Kinematics of Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation Reactions

   • V. P. Shevelko, J. Ullrich

   Pages 1-32

3. Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy and “Reaction Microscopes”

   • R. Moshammer, D. Fischer, H. Kollmus

   Pages 33-58

4. Multiparticle Imaging of Fast Molecular Ion Beams

   • D. Zajfman, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf

   Pages 59-70

5. Neutral—Atom Imaging Techniques

   • U. Müller, H. Helm

   Pages 71-82

6. Collisional Breakup in Coulomb Systems

   • T. N. Rescigno, C. W. McCurdy

   Pages 83-101

7. Hyperspherical R-Matrix with Semiclassical Outgoing Waves

   • L. Malegat, P. Selles, A. K. Kazansky

   Pages 103-120

8. Convergent Close-Coupling Approach to Electron—Atom Collisions

   • I. Bray, A. T. Stelbovics

   Pages 121-135

9. Close-Coupling Approach to Multiple—Atomic Ionization

   • A. S. Kheifets

   Pages 137-151

10. Numerical Grid Methods

    • K. T. Taylor, J. S. Parker, D. Dundas, K. J. Meharg, L. R. Moore, E. S. Smyth et al.

    Pages 153-168

11. S-Matrix Approach to Intense—Field Processes in Many-Electron Systems

    • F. H. M. Faisal

    Pages 169-183

12. Quantum Orbits and Laser-Induced Nonsequential Double Ionization

    • W. Becker, S. P. Goreslavski, R. Kopold, S. V. Popruzhenko

    Pages 185-204

13. Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in Atomic Collisions

    • H. J. Lüdde

    Pages 205-220

14. Electronic Collisions in Correlated Systems: From the Atomic to the Thermodynamic Limit

    • J. Berakdar

    Pages 221-243

15. From Atoms to Molecules

    • R. Dörner, H. Schmidt-Böcking, V. Mergel, T. Weber, L. Spielberger, O. Jagutzki et al.

    Pages 245-260

16. Vector Correlations in Dissociative Photoionization of Simple Molecules Induced by Polarized Light

    • D. Dowek

    Pages 261-282

17. Relaxation Dynamics of Core Excited Molecules Probed by Auger-Electron—Ion Coincidences

    • Marc Simon, Catalin Miron, Paul Morin

    Pages 283-301

18. Laser-Induced Fragmentation of Triatomic Hydrogen

    • H. Helm, U. Müller

    Pages 303-316

19. Nonsequential Multiple Ionization in Strong Laser Fields

    • H. Rottke

    Pages 317-338

20. Helium Double Ionization in Collisions with Electrons

    • A. Dorn

    Pages 339-351

This book aims to give a comprehensive view on the present status of a tremendously fast-developing field - the quantum dynamics of fragmenting many-particle Coulomb systems. In striking contrast to the profound theo­ retical knowledge, achieved from extremely precise experimental results on the static atomic and molecular structure, it was only three years ago when the three-body fundamental dynamical problem of breaking up the hydro­ gen atom by electron impact was claimed to be solved in a mathematically consistent way. Until now, more "complicated", though still fundamental scenarios, ad­ dressing the complete fragmentation of the "simplest" many-electron system, the helium atom, under the action of a time-dependent external force, have withstood any consistent theoretical description. Exceptions are the most "trivial" situations where the breakup is induced by the impact of a single real photon or of a virtual photon under a perturbation caused by fast, low­ charged particle impact. Similarly, the dissociation of the "simplest" molecu­ lar systems like Ht or HD+, fragmentating in collisions with slow electrons, or the H3 molecule breaking apart into two or three" pieces" as a result of a single laser-photon excitation, establish a major challenge for state-of-the-art theoretical approaches.

• Coulomb explosion
• Electrons and photons
• Many-particle dynamics
• Molecular dissociation
• Momentum spectroscopy of recoils ions
• atomic collision
• collision
• molecule
• particles
• scattering

• Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

  Joachim Ullrich

• P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia

  Viatcheslav Shevelko

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