Strong laser fields can tear an electron away from a molecule, leaving a hole in the electronic wavefunction that races through the molecule. The ultrafast motion of such a hole has been traced at last.
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02 September 2009
The News & Views article “Chemical physics: Electronic movies” by Marc Vrakking (Nature 460, 960–961, 2009) stated at the end of the fifth paragraph that “A similar conclusion was recently reached in a study of harmonic generation from nitrogen molecules”, and incorrectly cited reference 8 of the article.
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Vrakking, M. Electronic movies. Nature 460, 960–961 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460960a
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