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arxiv 2203.01905 v1 pith:MDLR3ZV3 submitted 2022-03-03 physics.atm-clus

Time-resolved Ultrafast Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Superexcited Sodium-doped Helium Nanodroplets

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The autoionization dynamics of superexcited superfluid He nanodroplets doped with Na atoms is studied by extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) time-resolved electron spectroscopy. Following excitation into the higher-lying droplet absorption band, the droplet relaxes into the lowest metastable atomic $1s2s$ $^{1,\,3}$S states from which Interatomic Coulombic Decay (ICD) takes places either between two excited He atoms or between an excited He atom and a Na atom attached to the droplet surface. Four main ICD channels are identified and their time constants are determined by varying the delay between the XUV pulse and a UV pulse that ionizes the initial excited state and thereby quenches ICD. The time constants for the different channels all fall in the range $\sim$1~ps indicating that the ICD dynamics are mainly determined by the droplet environment. A periodic modulation of the transient ICD signals is tentatively attributed to the oscillation of the bubble forming around the localized He excitation. The ICD efficiency depends on the total number of excited states in a droplet rather than the density of excited states pointing to a collective enhancement of ICD.

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