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

Peter M. Felker

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

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Ahmed H. Zewail

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

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https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814287616_0011Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

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.

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