Interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) is a nonlocal electronic decay
mechanism occurring in weakly bound matter. In an ICD process, energy released by …

Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

In pioneering work by Cederbaum et al an excitation mechanism was proposed that occurs
only in loosely bound matter (Cederbaum et al 1997 Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 4778): it turned out …

Low-energy electrons are the most abundant product of ionizing radiation in condensed
matter. The origin of these electrons is most commonly understood to be secondary …

Cell and gene damage caused by ionizing radiation has been studied for many years. It is
accepted that DNA lesions (single-and double-strand breaks, for example) are induced by …

Irradiation of matter with light tends to electronically excite atoms and molecules, with
subsequent relaxation processes determining where the photon energy is ultimately …

Autoionization is an important pathway for the relaxation of electronically excited states. In
weakly bonded matter, efficient autoionization channels have been found, in which not only …

Interatomic (or intermolecular) Coulombic decay is a general, very efficient mode of decay of
inner valence vacancies in clusters. The physically appealing interpretation of such decays …

The lifetime of interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD)[LS Cederbaum et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79,
4778 (1997)] in Ne 2 is determined via an extreme ultraviolet pump-probe experiment at the …

We review recent advances in attosecond science; particular attention is devoted to the
generation, temporal characterization and applications of isolated attosecond pulses. After a …