Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

J Duris, S Li, T Driver, EG Champenois… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum-mechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the sub-
femtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires …

Streaking of 43-attosecond soft-X-ray pulses generated by a passively CEP-stable mid-infrared driver

T Gaumnitz, A Jain, Y Pertot, M Huppert, I Jordan… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Attosecond metrology has so far largely remained limited to titanium: sapphire lasers
combined with an active stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP). These sources …

Filming movies of attosecond charge migration in single molecules with high harmonic spectroscopy

L He, S Sun, P Lan, Y He, B Wang, P Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electron migration in molecules is the progenitor of chemical reactions and biological
functions after light-matter interaction. Following this ultrafast dynamics, however, has been …

High-energy few-cycle pulses: post-compression techniques

T Nagy, P Simon, L Veisz - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources of high-energy few-cycle light
pulses. Currently two methods are capable of generating such pulses: post compression of …

Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics

L Young, K Ueda, M Gühr… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and table-top sources of x-rays based upon high
harmonic generation (HHG) have revolutionized the field of ultrafast x-ray atomic and …

Attosecond chronoscopy of photoemission

R Pazourek, S Nagele, J Burgdörfer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Recent advances in the generation of well-characterized subfemtosecond laser pulses have
opened up unpredicted opportunities for the real-time observation of ultrafast electronic …

Attosecond dynamics through a Fano resonance: Monitoring the birth of a photoelectron

V Gruson, L Barreau, Á Jiménez-Galan, F Risoud… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The dynamics of quantum systems are encoded in the amplitude and phase of wave
packets. However, the rapidity of electron dynamics on the attosecond scale has precluded …

High-harmonic generation from Bloch electrons in solids

M Wu, S Ghimire, DA Reis, KJ Schafer, MB Gaarde - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study the generation of high-harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model
transparent solid driven by a strong midinfrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time …