Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules

M Nisoli, P Decleva, F Calegari, A Palacios… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
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 …

Valence shell one-photon photoelectron circular dichroism in chiral systems

L Nahon, GA Garcia, I Powis - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Photoelectron circular dichroism, or PECD, an intense forward–backward asymmetry with
respect to the light's propagation axis observed in the photoelectron angular distribution …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in phenylalanine initiated by attosecond pulses

F Calegari, D Ayuso, A Trabattoni, L Belshaw… - Science, 2014 - science.org
In the past decade, attosecond technology has opened up the investigation of ultrafast
electronic processes in atoms, simple molecules, and solids. Here, we report the application …

Synthetic chiral light for efficient control of chiral light–matter interaction

D Ayuso, O Neufeld, AF Ordonez, P Decleva… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Light is a very powerful and precise tool, allowing us to control, shape, and create new
phases of matter. In such tasks, the magnetic component of a light wave is essential in …

Ultrasensitive chiral spectroscopy by dynamical symmetry breaking in high harmonic generation

O Neufeld, D Ayuso, P Decleva, MY Ivanov… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We propose and numerically demonstrate a new chiral spectroscopy method that is based
on a universal system-independent mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking in high …

Attosecond pump–probe spectroscopy of charge dynamics in tryptophan

M Lara-Astiaso, M Galli, A Trabattoni… - The journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Attosecond pump–probe experiments performed in small molecules have allowed tracking
charge dynamics in the natural time scale of electron motion. That this is also possible in …

Enantio-sensitive unidirectional light bending

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, P Decleva, M Ivanov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Structured light, which exhibits nontrivial intensity, phase, and polarization patterns in space,
has key applications ranging from imaging and 3D micromanipulation to classical and …

Charge migration induced by attosecond pulses in bio-relevant molecules

F Calegari, A Trabattoni, A Palacios… - Journal of Physics B …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
After sudden ionization of a large molecule, the positive charge can migrate throughout the
system on a sub-femtosecond time scale, purely guided by electronic coherences. The …

The quantum chemistry of attosecond molecular science

A Palacios, F Martín - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of attosecond light pulses at the beginning of this century, the possibility to
perform real‐time observations of electron motion in molecules has spurred impressive …

Geometric magnetism and anomalous enantio-sensitive observables in photoionization of chiral molecules

AF Ordonez, D Ayuso, P Decleva… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Chiral molecules are instrumental for molecular recognition in living organisms.
Distinguishing between two opposite enantiomers, the mirror twins of the same chiral …