Trapping of an electron due to molecular vibrations
Here we first show that the nuclear motion of H-2 generates a continuum of autoionization resonance states. The interference between them increases the lifetime of the trapped electron in the e(-)/H(2) scattering experiments and leads to asymmetric oscillations in the phase of the excitation probability amplitude. This collective coherent interference resonance phenomenon is very different from any known mechanism in quantum mechanics which reveals the fingerprints of overlapping resonances in scattering cross section and results from the non-Hermitian properties of the H-2 Hamiltonian.
Narevicius
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Department of Chemistry and Minerva Center of Non-linear Physics in Complex Systems, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Moiseyev
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