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 …

Strong-field rescattering physics—self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons

CD Lin, AT Le, Z Chen, T Morishita… - Journal of Physics B …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
When an atom or molecule is exposed to a short intense laser pulse, electrons that were
removed at an earlier time may be driven back by the oscillating electric field of the laser to …

Attochemistry: Is controlling electrons the future of photochemistry?

ICD Merritt, D Jacquemin, M Vacher - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlling matter with light has always been a great challenge, leading to the ever-
expanding field of photochemistry. In addition, since the first generation of light pulses of …

Population redistribution among multiple electronic states of molecular nitrogen ions in strong laser fields

J Yao, S Jiang, W Chu, B Zeng, C Wu, R Lu, Z Li, H **e… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We carry out a combined theoretical and experimental investigation on the population
distributions in the ground and excited states of tunnel-ionized nitrogen molecules at various …

Controlled near-field enhanced electron acceleration from dielectric nanospheres with intense few-cycle laser fields

S Zherebtsov, T Fennel, J Plenge, E Antonsson… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Collective electron motion in condensed matter typically unfolds on a sub-femtosecond
timescale. The well-defined electric field evolution of intense, phase-stable few-cycle laser …

Field-free orientation of CO molecules by femtosecond two-color laser fields

S De, I Znakovskaya, D Ray, F Anis, NG Johnson… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We report the first experimental observation of nonadiabatic field-free orientation of a
heteronuclear diatomic molecule (CO) induced by an intense two-color (800 and 400 nm) …

Multiorbital tunneling ionization of the CO molecule

J Wu, LPH Schmidt, M Kunitski, M Meckel, S Voss… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We coincidently measure the molecular-frame photoelectron angular distribution and the ion
sum-momentum distribution of single and double ionization of CO molecules by using …

Attosecond-recollision-controlled selective fragmentation of polyatomic molecules

X **e, K Doblhoff-Dier, S Roither, MS Schöffler… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
Control over various fragmentation reactions of a series of polyatomic molecules (acetylene,
ethylene, 1, 3-butadiene) by the optical waveform of intense few-cycle laser pulses is …

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 …