Electron localization involving doubly excited states in broadband extreme ultraviolet ionization of H2.

Dissociative single ionization of H(2) induced by extreme ultraviolet photons from an attosecond pulse train has been studied in a kinematically complete experiment. Depending on the electron kinetic energy and the alignment of the molecule with respect to the laser polarization axis, we observe pronounced asymmetries in the relative emission directions of the photoelectron and the H(+) ion. The energy-dependent asymmetry pattern is explained by a semiclassical model and further validated by fully quantum mechanical calculations, both in very good agreement with the experiment.

Demetalation of a single organometallic complex.

Single lead-phthalocyanine molecules adsorbed to ultrathin lead islands on Ag(111) are demetalized by transferring the lead atom of the inner macrocycle to the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. Reactants and products are discriminated by their images and spectroscopic fingerprints.