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Broken Symmetry in a Hydrogen Molecule

Caption: Energy landscape of photo excitation of doubly excited states of the D2 molecule and their decay. This image relates to article that appeared in the Feb. 2, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. F. Martín and colleagues of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, was titled "Single Photon-Induced Symmetry Breaking of H2 Dissociation."

Credit: Photo provided by Atomic Physics Group, University of Frankfurt, Germany, via Science-AAAS.

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