title: Shock shells in Coulomb explosions of nanoclusters.
abstract: We predict that Coulomb explosion of a nanoscale cluster, which is ionized by high-intensity laser radiation and has a naturally occurring spatial density profile, will invariably produce shock waves. In most typical situations, two shocks, a leading and a trailing one, form a shock shell that eventually encompasses the entire cluster. Being the first example of shock waves on the nanometer scale, this phenomenon promises interesting effects and applications, including high-rate nuclear reactions inside each individual cluster.
authors: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
authors: A E
authors: AE
authors: Kaplan
authors: B Y
authors: BY
authors: Dubetsky
authors: P L
authors: PL
authors: Shkolnikov