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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.163003
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21463-N22, P25615-N27, V193-N16, I274-N16]
- SIRG grant from the ERC (project CyFi)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11074098]
- Max-Planck Research School for Advanced Photon Science
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P25615] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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We investigate the possibility of using molecular alignment for controlling the relative probability of individual reaction pathways in polyatomic molecules initiated by electronic processes on the few-femtosecond time scale. Using acetylene as an example, it is shown that aligning the molecular axis with respect to the polarization direction of the ionizing laser pulse does not only allow us to enhance or suppress the overall fragmentation yield of a certain fragmentation channel but, more importantly, to determine the relative probability of individual reaction pathways starting from the same parent molecular ion. We show that the achieved control over dissociation or isomerization pathways along specific nuclear degrees of freedom is based on a controlled population of associated excited dissociative electronic states in the molecular ion due to relatively enhanced ionization contributions from inner valence orbitals.
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