Atomic, molecular and optical physics applications of longitudinally coherent and narrow bandwidth Free-Electron Lasers

C Callegari, AN Grum-Grzhimailo, KL Ishikawa… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Short wavelength Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) are among the newest light sources
available to scientists to probe a wide range of phenomena, with chemical, physical and …

X-ray induced ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules, and clusters: experimental studies at an X-ray free-electron laser facility SACLA and modelling

H Fukuzawa, K Ueda - Advances in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) deliver intense, coherent, femtosecond X-ray
laser pulses. They are opening new research fields of studying ultrafast electronic and …

Few-femtosecond resolved imaging of laser-driven nanoplasma expansion

C Peltz, JA Powell, P Rupp, A Summers… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The free expansion of a planar plasma surface is a fundamental non-equilibrium process
relevant for various fields but as-yet experimentally still difficult to capture. The significance …

Anisotropic surface broadening and core depletion during the evolution of a strong-field induced nanoplasma

C Bacellar, AS Chatterley, F Lackner, CD Pemmaraju… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Strong-field ionization of nanoscale clusters provides excellent opportunities to study the
complex correlated electronic and nuclear dynamics of near-solid density plasmas. Yet …

Time-resolved optical shadowgraphy of solid hydrogen jets as a testbed to benchmark particle-in-cell simulations

L Yang, L Huang, S Assenbaum, TE Cowan… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are a widely-used tool to model kinetics-dominated
plasmas in ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions (dimensionless vectorpotential a 0> 1) …

Three-dimensional femtosecond snapshots of isolated faceted nanostructures

A Colombo, S Dold, P Kolb, N Bernhardt, P Behrens… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The structure and dynamics of isolated nanosamples in free flight can be directly visualized
via single-shot coherent diffractive imaging using the intense and short pulses of x-ray free …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging plasma formation in isolated nanoparticles with ultrafast resonant scattering

D Rupp, L Flückiger, M Adolph, A Colombo… - Structural …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We have recorded the diffraction patterns from individual xenon clusters irradiated with
intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to investigate the influence of light-induced electronic …

Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets

B Langbehn, Y Ovcharenko, A Clark… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle
scattering in a pump–probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon …

Crystallization kinetics of atomic crystals revealed by a single-shot and single-particle X-ray diffraction experiment

A Niozu, Y Kumagai, TN Hiraki… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Crystallization is a fundamental natural phenomenon and the ubiquitous physical process in
materials science for the design of new materials. So far, experimental observations of the …

Relation between inner structural dynamics and ion dynamics of laser-heated nanoparticles

A Niozu, Y Kumagai, H Fukuzawa, N Yokono, D You… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
When a nanoparticle is irradiated by an intense laser pulse, it turns into a nanoplasma, a
transition that is accompanied by many interesting nonequilibrium dynamics. So far, most …