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Oriented external electric fields are ubiquitous in chemistry; however, the effects of fields applied in different directions on molecular systems remain underexplored. A major challenge is that an applied field exerts a torque on a…

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A new perspective on how to manipulate molecules by means of very strong laser pulses is emerging with insights from the so-called light-induced potentials, which are the adiabatic potential energy surfaces of molecules severely distorted…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Bo Y. Chang , Ignacio R. Sola , Seokmin Shin

The focusing of the radiation generated by a polarization current with a superluminally rotating distribution pattern is of a higher order in the plane of rotation than in other directions. Consequently, our previously published asymptotic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Houshang Ardavan , Arzhang Ardavan , John Singleton , Joseph Fasel , Andrea Schmidt

A broadband squeezed vacuum photon field is characterized by a complex squeezing function. We show that by controlling the wavelength dependence of its phase it is possible to change the dynamics of the atomic polarization interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-11 Itay Rabinak , Eran Ginossar , Shimon Levit

Non-linear Compton scattering in ultra-short intense laser pulses is discussed with the focus on angular distributions of the emitted photon energy. This is an observable which is accessible easily experimentally. Asymmetries of the…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-30 D. Seipt , B. Kampfer

We prove that it is impossible to distinguish two spatially coinciding fluorescent molecules from a single rotating molecule using polarization-sensitive imaging, even if one modulates the polarization of the illumination or the detection…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yiyang Chen , Yuanxin Qiu , Matthew D. Lew

It has been argued that in atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of sparse weakly scattering structures, such as small biological molecules, multiple electron scattering usually has only a small effect, while the…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 T. E. Gureyev , H. M. Quiney , A. Kozlov , D. M. Paganin , G. Schmalz , L. J. Allen

It is shown that the interaction of an electron beam with polarized electromagnetic wave of laser photons propagating in the same direction in a short interaction region results in significant transversal deflection of the electrons which…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Ispirian , M. K. Ispiryan

When a laser passes through underdense plasmas, Raman and Brillouin Backscattering can reflect a substantial portion of the incident laser energy. This is a major loss mechanism, for example, in employing lasers in inertial confinement…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Ido Barth , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We have investigated the angle-resolved ATI spectrum of oriented molecules in the IR+XUV co-rotating circular laser fields. According to the different roles of IR and XUV laser in the ionization process, we purposefully adjust the photon…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Yu-Hong Li , Facheng Jin , Yujun Yang , Fei Li , Ying-Chun Guo , Zhi-Yi Wei , Jing Chen , Xiaojun Liu , Bingbing Wang

We study interaction of generic asymmetric molecules with a pair of strong time-delayed short laser pulses with crossed linear polarizations. We show that such an excitation not only provides unidirectional rotation of the most polarizable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. Gershnabel , I. Sh. Averbukh

Depolarization of circularly polarized light scattered from biological tissues depends on structural changes in cell nuclei, which can provide valuable information for differentiating cancer tissues concealed in healthy tissues. In this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Nozomi Nishizawa , Bassam Al-Qadi , Takahiro Kuchimaru

The present work reports on the generation of short-pulse coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation of controlled polarization. The proposed strategy is based on high-order harmonics generated in pre-aligned molecules. Field-free molecular…

The free electron model with Boltzmann statistics for spherical low-density plasmas is developed further with asymptotic relations obtaining the density of electrons, mass densities, and the potentials of such plasmas. Solutions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Recent molecular dynamics simulations show that thermal gradients can induce electric fields in water that are comparable in magnitude to electric fields seen in ionic thin films and biomembranes. This surprising non-equilibrium phenomenon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-09 Alpha A. Lee

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for circularly polarized…

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This work aims to study theoretically the electron-proton scattering for initially spin-polarized electrons in the presence of a circularly polarized electromagnetic field. Using the first Born approximation and the Dirac-Volkov states for…

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We study the broadband polarization of hydrogen lines produced by scattering of radiation, in the presence of isotropic electric fields. In this paper, we focus on two distinct problems: a) the possibility of detecting the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 R. Casini , R. Manso Sainz

We investigate theoretically the ability of an optical centrifuge - a laser pulse whose linear polarization is rotating at an accelerated rate, to control molecular rotation in the regime when the rigid-rotor approximation breaks down due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 J. M. García-Garrido , V. Milner , C. P. Koch , R. González-Férez

Doppler cooling is a widely used technique to laser cool atoms and nanoparticles exploiting the Doppler shift involved in translational transformations. The rotational Doppler effect arising from rotational coordinate transformations should…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu , F. Javier García de Abajo