title: Direct observation of a breit-wigner phase of a wave function
abstract: The Breit-Wigner phase of a wave function was obtained by measuring the interference between two independent ionization paths of a molecule. The state of interest was present in only one of the paths, thereby producing a phase shift in the observed signal. An analytical theory was used to determine the phase of the wave function from the observable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry (m/c 111), University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7061, USA.
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fiss
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khachatrian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Truhins
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seideman