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The study of the fragmentation of molecules exposed to very intense sources of light, has led to the discovery of some unusual effects. Some of these effects are common to any multielectron monoatomic target, others are unique features of polyatomic systems. For example, the photoelectron spectrum obtained from the multiphoton ionization of a molecule will exhibit a rich fine-structure, absent from that obtained from a single atom, due to the nuclear motion. While molecules are generally held to be more complicated systems than atoms, because of the extra degrees of freedom present; still, one can simplify the calculations to a great extent by decoupling, at least to first order, the nuclear and electronic motion within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
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McCann, J.F., Bandrauk, A.D., Gauthier, JM. (1993). Stabilization and Coherence in the Photodissociation of Diatomic Molecules by Intense Lasers. In: Piraux, B., L’Huillier, A., Rzążewski, K. (eds) Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 316. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7963-2_31
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