Delocalization of a Vacancy across Two Neon Atoms Bound by the van der Waals Force

We experimentally study $2p$ photoionization of neon dimers (${\mathrm{Ne}}_{2}$) at a photon energy of $h\ensuremath{\nu}=36.56\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{eV}$. By postselection of ionization events which lead to a dissociation into ${\mathrm{Ne}}^{+}+\mathrm{Ne}$ we obtain the photoelectron angular emission distribution in the molecular frame. This distribution is symmetric with respect to the direction of the charged vs neutral fragment. It shows an inverted Cohen-Fano double slit interference pattern of two spherical waves emitted coherently but with opposite phases from the two atoms of the dimer.