Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter

D Filippetto, P Musumeci, RK Li, BJ Siwick… - Reviews of modern …, 2022 - APS
Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has
developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter …

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 …

Imaging ultrafast molecular dynamics with laser-induced electron diffraction

CI Blaga, J Xu, AD DiChiara, E Sistrunk, K Zhang… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Establishing the structure of molecules and solids has always had an essential role in
physics, chemistry and biology. The methods of choice are X-ray and electron diffraction …

Femtosecond electron diffraction: heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics

G Sciaini, RJD Miller - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the great dream experiments in Science is to directly observe atomic motions as they
occur. Femtosecond electron diffraction provided the first'light'of sufficient intensity to …

Advances in intense femtosecond laser filamentation in air

SL Chin, TJ Wang, C Marceau, J Wu, JS Liu… - Laser Physics, 2012 - Springer
This is a review of some recent development in femtosecond filamentation science with
emphasis on our collective work. Previously reviewed work in the field will not be discussed …

Diffractive imaging of coherent nuclear motion in isolated molecules

J Yang, M Guehr, X Shen, R Li, T Vecchione, R Coffee… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Observing the motion of the nuclear wave packets during a molecular reaction, in both
space and time, is crucial for understanding and controlling the outcome of photoinduced …

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 …

[CARTE][B] 4D electron microscopy: imaging in space and time

AH Zewail, JM Thomas - 2009 - books.google.com
The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and
many evolutionary ones, now yields a wealth of quantitative knowledge pertaining to …

Capturing chemistry in action with electrons: realization of atomically resolved reaction dynamics

AA Ischenko, PM Weber, RJD Miller - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
One of the grand challenges in chemistry has been to directly observe atomic motions
during chemical processes. The depiction of the nuclear configurations in space-time to …

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 …