Advances in attosecond science have led to a wealth of important discoveries in atomic,
molecular, and solid-state physics and are progressively directing their footsteps toward …

Attosecond science offers formidable tools for the investigation of electronic processes at the
heart of important physical processes in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics. In the last …

Recent advances in the generation of well-characterized subfemtosecond laser pulses have
opened up unpredicted opportunities for the real-time observation of ultrafast electronic …

The tunnelling of a particle through a potential barrier is a key feature of quantum mechanics
that goes to the core of wave–particle duality. The phenomenon has no counterpart in …

The emerging application of attosecond techniques to molecular systems allows the role of
electronic coherence in the control of chemical reactions to be investigated. Prompt …

The history and current status of the Keldysh theory of strong field ionization are reviewed.
The focus is on the fundamentals of the theory, its most important applications and those …

The tunnelling of a particle through a barrier is one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous
quantum processes. When induced by an intense laser field, electron tunnelling from atoms …

Resolving in time the dynamics of light absorption by atoms and molecules, and the
electronic rearrangement this induces, is among the most challenging goals of attosecond …

The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of
chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the …

The first hundred attoseconds of the electron dynamics during strong field tunneling
ionization are investigated. We quantify theoretically how the electron's classical trajectories …