%0 Journal Article
%A Schnorr, Kirsten
%A Augustin, Sven
%A Saalmann, Ulf
%A Schmid, Georg
%A Rouzée, Arnaud
%A Obaid, Razib
%A AlHaddad, Andre
%A Berrah, Nora
%A Blaga, Cosmin I.
%A Bostedt, Christoph
%A Cardosa-Gutierrez, Manuel
%A Carini, Gabriella
%A Coffee, Ryan
%A DiMauro, Louis F.
%A Hart, Philip
%A Ito, Yuta
%A Kubicek, Katharina
%A Kumagai, Yoshiaki
%A Küpper, Jochen
%A Lai, Yu Hang
%A Lindenblatt, Hannes
%A Livingstone, Ruth A.
%A Meister, Severin
%A Moshammer, Robert
%A Motomura, Koji
%A Möller, Thomas
%A Nakahara, Kaz
%A Osipov, Timur
%A Pandey, Gaurav
%A Ray, Dipanwita
%A Remacle, Francoise
%A Rolles, Daniel
%A Rost, Jan Michael
%A Schlichting, Ilme
%A Schmidt, Rüdiger
%A Techert, Simone
%A Trost, Florian
%A Ueda, Kiyoshi
%A Ullrich, Joachim
%A Vrakking, Marc J. J.
%A Zimmermann, Julian
%A Schulz, Claus Peter
%A Pfeifer, Thomas
%T Visualizing the strong field–induced molecular breakup of C60 via x-ray diffraction
%J Science advances
%V 11
%N 47
%@ 2375-2548
%C Washington, DC [u.a.]
%I Assoc.
%M PUBDB-2025-05202
%P eadz1900
%D 2025
%X Laser-driven dynamics in polyatomic molecules poses a complex many-body problem. Understanding intense light-matter interaction is crucial for steering intramolecular quantum dynamical processes. Here, we record time-resolved x-ray diffraction images of molecules during and after their interaction with intense near-infrared fields, giving direct access to structural changes of the molecules and their fragmentation in real time. Tuning the intensity of the excitation pulses, we uncover a transition from a weak-field regime of excited but stable molecules to a high-field regime dominated by Coulomb explosion. In the transition region, the molecules expand by up to 50
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%R 10.1126/sciadv.adz1900
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/641792