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XUV Pump-Probe Experiments on Diatomic Molecules

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Molecules undergoing a chemical reaction, such as dissociation or ionization, are essentially few-particle quantum systems that dynamically evolve as a function of time.

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Schnorr, K. (2015). Introduction. In: XUV Pump-Probe Experiments on Diatomic Molecules. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12139-0_1

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