TY - JOUR
T1 - Regular multicharged transient soft matter in Coulomb explosion of heteroclusters
AU - Last, Isidore
AU - Jortner, Joshua
PY - 2005/2/1
Y1 - 2005/2/1
N2 - Nanointerfaces of mobile, thin spherical shells of light ions that expand on the femtosecond time scale, can be produced by Coulomb explosion of extremely ionized molecular heteroclusters consisting of light and heavy ions, e.g., (D+|q+)n (q = 7-35), which are generated in ultraintense laser fields (intensity, I, = 1016 to 1020 W·cm-2). Modeling, together with molecular dynamics simulations, reveals the expansion of 2D monolayers with high energies and narrow energy distributions [e.g., Eav ≃ 23 keV and ΔE/Eav = 0.16 for D+ from (D+l25+)2171] arising from kinematic run-over effects. The expanding regular, monoionic, spherical nanointerfaces manifest the attainment of transient self-organization in complex systems driven by repulsive Coulomb interactions.
AB - Nanointerfaces of mobile, thin spherical shells of light ions that expand on the femtosecond time scale, can be produced by Coulomb explosion of extremely ionized molecular heteroclusters consisting of light and heavy ions, e.g., (D+|q+)n (q = 7-35), which are generated in ultraintense laser fields (intensity, I, = 1016 to 1020 W·cm-2). Modeling, together with molecular dynamics simulations, reveals the expansion of 2D monolayers with high energies and narrow energy distributions [e.g., Eav ≃ 23 keV and ΔE/Eav = 0.16 for D+ from (D+l25+)2171] arising from kinematic run-over effects. The expanding regular, monoionic, spherical nanointerfaces manifest the attainment of transient self-organization in complex systems driven by repulsive Coulomb interactions.
KW - Coulomb instability
KW - Expanding nanointerfaces
KW - Extreme ionization
KW - Molecular heteroclusters
KW - Transient self-organization
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0408636102
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0408636102
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AN - SCOPUS:13444311556
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 102
SP - 1291
EP - 1295
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 5
ER -