Blowing A Molecule To Bits And Calculating What Happens To All The Pieces

... The first-ever complete quantum-mechanical solution of a system with four charged particles, namely the photoionization of a hydrogen molecule, has been achieved by an international group of collaborators from the University of California, universities in Spain and Belgium, and DOE''s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The computational breakthrough was inspired by experiments at the Advanced Light Source measuring the position and momentum of both electrons and protons resulting from the photofragmentation of molecular hydrogen. ...