Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

The ultrafast X-ray spectroscopic revolution in chemical dynamics

PM Kraus, M Zürch, SK Cushing, DM Neumark… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The past two decades have seen rapid developments in short-pulse X-ray sources, which
have enabled the study of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies …

Transient absorption spectroscopy using high harmonic generation: a review of ultrafast X-ray dynamics in molecules and solids

R Geneaux, HJB Marroux… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Attosecond science opened the door to observing nuclear and electronic dynamics in real
time and has begun to expand beyond its traditional grounds. Among several spectroscopic …

Sub-cycle millijoule-level parametric waveform synthesizer for attosecond science

GM Rossi, RE Mainz, Y Yang, F Scheiba… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The availability of high-energy pulses with durations shorter than the period of their carrier
frequency (sub-cycle) will reveal new regimes of strong-field light–matter interactions …

Attosecond technology (ies) and science

J Biegert, F Calegari, N Dudovich… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 2001 and the first demonstrations of the feasibility of generating and measuring
attosecond light pulses, attosecond science has developed into a very active and quickly …

Zeptosecond birth time delay in molecular photoionization

S Grundmann, D Trabert, K Fehre, N Strenger, A Pier… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Photoionization is one of the fundamental light-matter interaction processes in which the
absorption of a photon launches the escape of an electron. The time scale of this process …

Attosecond circular-dichroism chronoscopy of electron vortices

M Han, JB Ji, T Balčiūnas, K Ueda, HJ Wörner - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Circular dichroism (CD) describes the different responses of a chiral object to circularly
polarized light of opposite handedness and serves as the basis of most chirality-sensitive …

Capturing electron-driven chiral dynamics in UV-excited molecules

V Wanie, E Bloch, EP Månsson, L Colaizzi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Chiral molecules, used in applications such as enantioselective photocatalysis, circularly
polarized light detection and emission and molecular switches,, exist in two geometrical …

Ultrasensitive chiral spectroscopy by dynamical symmetry breaking in high harmonic generation

O Neufeld, D Ayuso, P Decleva, MY Ivanov… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We propose and numerically demonstrate a new chiral spectroscopy method that is based
on a universal system-independent mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking in high …

Atomic partial wave meter by attosecond coincidence metrology

W Jiang, GSJ Armstrong, J Tong, Y Xu, Z Zuo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Attosecond chronoscopy is central to the understanding of ultrafast electron dynamics in
matter from gas to the condensed phase with attosecond temporal resolution. It has …