Electron motions induced by a strong electric field are mapped in space and time with the help of femtosecond x-ray pulses.
Not exact matches
The Weyl semimetal state is
induced when the opposing
motions of the
electrons cause the Dirac cones to split in two (illustrated on the left by outward facing
electrons, opposite the inward facing
electrons on the right).
This
motion would be detected by measuring image charges, which are
induced by the moving
electrons, flowing through another electrode using a commercially available current amplifier and lock - in detector.
In the current issue of Journal of Chemical Physics, Benjamin Freyer, Flavio Zamponi, Vincent Juve, Johannes Stingl, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser and Majed Chergui report the first in - situ x-ray imaging of
electron and atom
motions induced by such an
electron transfer excitation.