Quantum control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

[HTML][HTML] Matter manipulation with extreme terahertz light: Progress in the enabling THz technology

P Salén, M Basini, S Bonetti, J Hebling, M Krasilnikov… - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) light has proven to be a fine tool to probe and control quasi-particles and
collective excitations in solids, to drive phase transitions and associated changes in material …

Attoclock reveals natural coordinates of the laser-induced tunnelling current flow in atoms

AN Pfeiffer, C Cirelli, M Smolarski, D Dimitrovski… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
In the research area of strong-laser-field interactions and attosecond science, tunnelling of
an electron through the barrier formed by the electric field of the laser and the atomic …

Manipulation of molecules with electromagnetic fields

M Lemeshko, RV Krems, JM Doyle, S Kais - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the present article is to review the major developments that have led to the
current understanding of molecule–field interactions and experimental methods for …

Molecular orientation and alignment by intense single-cycle THz pulses

S Fleischer, Y Zhou, RW Field, KA Nelson - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Intense single-cycle THz pulses resonantly interacting with molecular rotations are shown to
induce field-free orientation and alignment under ambient conditions. We calculate and …

Attosecond science: recent highlights and future trends

L Gallmann, C Cirelli, U Keller - Annual review of physical …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review the first ten years of attosecond science with a selection of recent highlights and
trends and give an outlook on future directions. After introducing the main spectroscopic …

Tracing orbital images on ultrafast time scales

R Wallauer, M Raths, K Stallberg, L Münster… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Frontier orbitals determine fundamental molecular properties such as chemical reactivities.
Although electron distributions of occupied orbitals can be imaged in momentum space by …

Time-resolved imaging of purely valence-electron dynamics during a chemical reaction

P Hockett, CZ Bisgaard, OJ Clarkin, A Stolow - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Chemical reactions are manifestations of the dynamics of molecular valence electrons and
their couplings to atomic motions. Emerging methods in attosecond science can probe …

Signatures of the continuum electron phase in molecular strong-field photoelectron holography

M Meckel, A Staudte, S Patchkovskii, DM Villeneuve… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Laser-driven electron recollision is at the heart of the rapidly growing field of attosecond
science. The recollision wavepacket is qualitatively described within the strong-field …

Theory of tunneling ionization of molecules: Weak-field asymptotics including dipole effects

OI Tolstikhin, T Morishita, LB Madsen - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2011 - APS
The formulation of the parabolic adiabatic expansion approach to the problem of ionization
of atomic systems in a static electric field, originally developed for the axially symmetric case …