Terawatt-attosecond hard X-ray free-electron laser at high repetition rate

J Yan, W Qin, Y Chen, W Decking, P Dijkstal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ångstrom and attosecond are the fundamental spatiotemporal scales for electron dynamics
in various materials. Although attosecond pulses with wavelengths comparable to the atomic …

Probing Electronic Coherence between Core-Level Vacancies at Different Atomic Sites

J Wang, T Driver, PL Franz, P Kolorenč, E Thierstein… - Physical Review X, 2025 - APS
The detailed understanding of electronic coherence in quantum systems requires
measurements on the attosecond timescale. Attosecond x-ray pulses enable the study of …

Lightwave-controlled relativistic plasma mirrors

M Ouillé, J Kaur, Z Cheng, S Haessler… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We report on attosecond-scale control of high-harmonic and fast electron emission from
plasma mirrors driven by relativistic-intensity near-single-cycle light waves at a kHz …

Pushing the limits of ultrafast diffraction: Imaging quantum coherences in isolated molecules

Z Tang, R Jarupula, H Yong - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Quantum coherence governs the outcome and efficiency of photochemical reactions and
ultrafast molecular dynamics. Recent ultrafast gas-phase X-ray scattering and electron …

Three-dimensional theory of superradiant free-electron lasers

RR Robles, L Giannessi, A Marinelli - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The solitonlike superradiant regime of free-electron lasers (FEL) offers a promising path
towards ultrashort pulses, beyond the natural limit dictated by the bandwidth of the high-gain …

Hermitian stochastic methodology for x-ray superfluorescence

S Chuchurka, V Sukharnikov, N Rohringer - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
A recently introduced theoretical framework for modeling the dynamics of x-ray amplified
spontaneous emission is based on stochastic sampling of the density matrix of quantum …

Above-threshold ionization with X-ray free-electron lasers

S Walker, AS Landsman - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
This study delves into the relatively uncharted territory of Above Threshold Ionization in
atoms, triggered by intense X-ray radiation fields. At these frequencies, the energy of a …

Capturing nonlinear electron dynamics with fully characterised attosecond X-ray pulses

L Funke, M Ilchen, K Dingel, T Mazza, T Mullins… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Attosecond X-ray pulses are the key to studying electron dynamics at their natural time scale
involving specific electronic states. They are promising to build the conceptual bridge …

Synthesis of microbunching rotation for generating isolated attosecond soft x-ray free-electron laser pulses

H Sun, X Wang, L Zeng, W Zhang - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Attosecond x-ray pulses play a crucial role in the study of ultrafast phenomena involving
inner and valence electrons. Especially isolated attosecond pulses with high photon energy …

Instantaneous and Retarded Interactions in Coherent Radiation

Z Liu, X Deng, T Li, L Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In coherent radiation of an ensemble of electrons, the radiation field from electrons
resonantly drives the other electrons inside to produce stimulated emission. The radiation …