Professor
Erich Weigold
AM FAA FTSE
Weigold is a world leader in experiments with electron beams incident on atoms and molecules. His work has had outstanding significance in investigating the mechanism of such reactions, in particular all aspects of the Coulomb three-body problem. He pioneered electron momentum spectroscopy, which is a probe of unprecedented power for electronic structure. It arises from his understanding of the mechanism of an (e,2e) coincidence experiment. A kinematic range can be found where the experiment directly observes spherically-averaged squares of
momentum-space orbitals and critical aspects of many-electron wave functions.
Fields of research
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES-
5102
ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
- 510201 Atomic and Molecular Physics
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5104
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
- 510402 Condensed Matter Imaging
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- Chemical Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Physics
- Quantum Mechanics
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