Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

Trends in angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy

D Dowek, P Decleva - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy is reviewed, with
emphasis on foundations and most recent applications in different regimes of light–matter …

Laser-induced electron diffraction in chiral molecules

D Rajak, S Beauvarlet, O Kneller, A Comby, R Cireasa… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Strong laser pulses enable probing molecules with their own electrons. The oscillating
electric field tears electrons off a molecule, accelerates them, and drives them back toward …

Observation of attosecond time delays in above-threshold ionization

W **e, Z Li, M Li, Y Liu, Y Liu, C Cao, K Guo, K Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Attosecond-scale temporal characterization of photoionization is essential in understanding
how light and matter interact on the most fundamental level. However, characterizing the …

Strong field-induced quantum dynamics in atoms and small molecules

S Eckart - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
High-intensity laser fields can ionize atoms and molecules and also initiate molecular
dissociation. This review is on the recent progress made using experiments that harness the …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of molecular axis alignment and symmetry-breaking in photoelectron elliptical dichroism

C Sparling, A Ruget, L Ireland, N Kotsina… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) produced from the photoionization of chiral
molecules using elliptically polarized light exhibit a forward/backward asymmetry with …

Strong-field ionization of chiral molecules with bicircular laser fields: Sub-barrier dynamics, interference, and vortices

S Beaulieu, S Larroque, D Descamps, B Fabre, S Petit… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Strong-field ionization by counterrotating two-color laser fields produces quantum
interference between photoelectrons emitted on the leading and trailing edges of the laser …

Fast and precise chiroptical spectroscopy by photoelectron elliptical dichroism

A Comby, D Descamps, S Petit, E Valzer… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The photoionization of chiral molecules by elliptically polarized femtosecond laser pulses
produces photoelectron angular distributions which show a strong and enantio-sensitive …

Machine-learning enhanced enantioselective single-shot-single-molecule ac Stark spectroscopy

X Mu, C Ye, X Zhang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enantiodiscrimination with single-molecule and single-shot resolution is fundamental for the
understanding of the fate and behavior of two enantiomers in chemical reactions, biological …

[HTML][HTML] Tomographic reconstruction techniques optimized for velocity-map imaging applications

C Sparling, D Townsend - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Examples of extracting meaningful information from image projection data using
tomographic reconstruction techniques can be found in many areas of science. Within the …