Neutralization of Multiply Charged Ground-State Ions by Collective Electron Transfer from an Environment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10508659" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10508659 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=G9VliN6nn8" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=G9VliN6nn8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/9yd1-9gkx" target="_blank" >10.1103/9yd1-9gkx</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Neutralization of Multiply Charged Ground-State Ions by Collective Electron Transfer from an Environment
Original language description
Highly charged cations are omnipresent species after the interaction of high-energy or high-intensity light with matter. When embedded in environments, the mechanism and outcome of the redistribution of the cation's charge are crucial for the further fate of the whole system. Generally, ground-state cations can decay by charge transfer, proceeding radiatively, through nuclear dynamics, or by electron-transfermediated decay (ETMD). ETMD causes electron emission from a remote neighbor and appears ubiquitous in loosely bound systems. It remained unclear how multiply charged ions decay if conventional ETMD channels are closed. Here, we show that a yet undiscovered variant of ETMD is possible, where multiple electrons are collectively transferred. Explicitly, we observe ETMD in which two electrons from two distinct neighbors (partially) neutralize a multiply charged ion, and an electron from a fourth site is emitted. According to the established nomenclature, we suggest naming the process ETMD(4).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10300 - Physical sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-22658S" target="_blank" >GA22-22658S: Multi-electron decay processes in polyatomic systems</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review Letters
ISSN
0031-9007
e-ISSN
1079-7114
Volume of the periodical
135
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
053201
UT code for WoS article
001542320700003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105013688908