Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics

FM Alcorn, PK Jain, RM van der Veen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Free-electron–light interactions in nanophotonics

C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, Y Yang, N Rivera… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When im**ing on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can
spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as …

Creation of optical cat and GKP states using shaped free electrons

R Dahan, G Baranes, A Gorlach, R Ruimy, N Rivera… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Cat states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states play a key role in quantum
computation and communication with continuous variables. The creation of such states …

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

JW Henke, AS Raja, A Feist, G Huang, G Arend… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Integrated photonics facilitates extensive control over fundamental light–matter interactions
in manifold quantum systems including atoms, trapped ions,, quantum dots and defect …

Optical coherence transfer mediated by free electrons

O Kfir, V Di Giulio, FJG de Abajo, C Ropers - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
We theoretically investigate the quantum-coherence properties of the cathodoluminescence
(CL) emission produced by a temporally modulated electron beam. Specifically, we consider …

Observation of 2D Cherenkov radiation

Y Adiv, H Hu, S Tsesses, R Dahan, K Wang, Y Kurman… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
For over 80 years of research, the conventional description of free-electron radiation
phenomena, such as Cherenkov radiation, has remained unchanged: classical three …

Miniature light-driven nanophotonic electron acceleration and control

R Shiloh, N Schönenberger, Y Adiv… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) are fundamentally based on the interaction of photons
with free electrons, where energy and momentum conservation are satisfied by mediation of …

Ultrafast transverse modulation of free electrons by interaction with shaped optical fields

I Madan, V Leccese, A Mazur, F Barantani… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Spatiotemporal electron-beam sha** is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the
past decade, sha** methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic …

Maximal quantum interaction between free electrons and photons

Z **e, Z Chen, H Li, Q Yan, H Chen, X Lin, I Kaminer… - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
The emerging field of free-electron quantum optics enables electron-photon entanglement
and holds the potential for generating nontrivial photon states for quantum information …