Localized electron in a polar liquid (IMAGE)

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)

Localized electron in a polar liquid

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Fig. 1. (a) Localized electron in a polar liquid. The scheme shows the probability density of a localized electron (contour) in an environment of solvent molecules with an electric dipole moment. (b) Longitudinal excitation of the spherical molecular cloud around a localized electron. The displacements of molecules in radial direction change the nanometer diameter of the molecular cloud. (c) Scheme of a transversal excitation of the liquid on a macroscopic length scale, which exceeds the diameter of the molecular cloud by far.

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MBI: T. Elsaesser / M. Woerner

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