First prediction of inter-Coulombic decay of C60 inner vacancies through the continuum of confined atoms

Abstract

Considering the photoionization of Ar@C60 and Kr@C60 endofullerenes, the decay of C60 innershell excitations through the outershell continuum of the confined atom via the inter-Coulombic decay (ICD) pathway is detailed. Excitations to atom-C60 hybrid states demonstrate coherence between ICD and electron-transfer mediated decay (ETMD). This should be the dominant above-threshold decay process for a variety of confined systems, and the strength of these resonances is such that they should be amenable for study by photoelectron spectroscopy.

arXiv comment8 pages, 2 figures, submitted

References in corpus (11)

• Phase measurement of a Fano window resonance using tunable attosecond pulses
• A new intermolecular mechanism to selectively drive photoinduced damages
• Vibrationally Resolved Decay Width of Interatomic Coulombic Decay in HeNe
• Two-center resonant photo ionization
• Time delay in the recoiling valence-photoemission of Ar endohedrally confined in C${}_{60}$
• Ion impact induced Interatomic Coulombic Decay in neon and argon dimers
• Attosecond time delay in valence photoionization and photorecombination of argon: a TDLDA study
• On the vacancy decay in endohedral atoms
• Resonant Auger-intercoulombic hybridized decay in the photoionization of endohedral fullerenes
• Vacancy decay in endohedral atoms: the role of non-central position of the atom
• Strong 3p -T1u Hybridization in Ar@C60

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Effects of exchange-correlation potentials on the density functional description of C_60 versus C_240 photoionization
• Plasmonic Resonant Intercluster Coulombic Decay
• Density functional study of the variants of inter-Coulombic decay resonances in the photoionization of Cl@C60
• Electron vacancy-level dependent hybrid photoionization of F-@C60+ molecule