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An important goal in molecular physics and chemistry today is to obtain structure-dependent information about molecular function to obtain a deeper understanding into chemical reactions. However, until now, asymmetric tops, which comprise…

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The use of plane wave approximation in molecular orbital tomography via high-order harmonic generation has been questioned since it was proposed, owing to the fact that it ignores the essential property of the continuum wave function. To…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Li , Xiaosong Zhu , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Meiyan Qin , Peixiang Lu

Recent measurements on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from N$_2$ aligned perpendicular to the driving laser polarization [B. K. McFarland {\it el al}, Science {\bf 322}, 1232 (2008)] have shown a maximum at the rotational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Anh-Thu Le , R. R. Lucchese , C. D. Lin

High-order harmonic generation is a powerful and sensitive tool for probing atomic and molecular structures, combining in the same measurement an unprecedented attosecond temporal resolution with a high spatial resolution, of the order of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Negro , M. Devetta , D. Faccialà , S. De Silvestri , C. Vozzi , S. Stagira

We report measurements and theoretical simulations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in aligned N$_2$ molecules using a 1200-nm intense laser field when the generating pulse is perpendicular to the aligning one. With increasing laser…

We investigate high-order harmonic spectra from aligned diatomic molecules in intense driving fields whose components have orthogonal polarizations. We focus on how the driving-field ellipticity influences structural interference patterns…

We introduce and demonstrate a new approach to measuring coherent electron wave packets using high-harmonic spectroscopy. By preparing a molecule in a coherent superposition of electronic states, we show that electronic coherence opens…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 P. M. Kraus , S. B. Zhang , A. Gijsbertsen , R. R. Lucchese , N. Rohringer , H. J. Wörner

The conformational change of biological macromolecule is investigated from the point of quantum transition. A quantum theory on protein folding is proposed. Compared with other dynamical variables such as mobile electrons, chemical bonds…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-06 LiaoFu Luo

We show that the dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) on the molecular orientation can be understood within a theoretical treatment that does not involve the strong field of the laser. The results for H_2 show excellent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Zimmermann , M. Lein , J. M. Rost

A moderately intense $450$ fs laser pulse is used to create rotational wave packets in gas phase $\rm{I_2}$ molecules. The ensuing time-dependent alignment, measured by Coulomb explosion imaging with a delayed probe pulse, exhibits the…

We demonstrate to image asymmetric molecular orbitals via high-order harmonic generation in a one-color inhomogeneous field. Due to the broken inversion symmetry of the inhomogeneous field in space, the returning electrons with energy in a…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hua Yuan , Lixin He , Feng Wang , Baoning Wang , Xiaosong Zhu , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

We study high-order harmonic generation in aligned molecules close to the ionization threshold. Two distinct contributions to the harmonic signal are observed, which show very different responses to molecular alignment and ellipticity of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 H. Soifer , P. Botheron , D. Shafir , A. Diner , O. Raz , B. D. Bruner , Y. Mairesse , B. Pons , N. Dudovich

The ability to directly follow and time resolve the rearrangement of the nuclei within molecules is a frontier of science that requires atomic spatial and few-femtosecond temporal resolutions. While laser induced electron diffraction can…

We investigated the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) process of diatomic molecular ion $\mathrm{H}_2^+$ in non-Born-Oppenheimer approximations. The corresponding three-dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is solved with…

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We analyze the dynamics of a 3D granular packing composed of particles of irregular polyhedral shape confined inside a rectangular box with a retaining wall sub jected to horizontal harmonic forcing. The simulations are performed by means…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 Émilien Azema , Farhang Radjaï , Robert Peyroux , Vincent Richefeu , Gilles Saussine

We investigate the contributions from the $3\sigma_{g}$ and $1\pi_{u}$ and molecular orbitals in high-order harmonic generation in $N_{2}$, with particular emphasis on quantum-interference effects. We consider both the physical processes in…

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Direct imaging of molecular dynamics is a long-standing goal in physics and chemistry. As an emerging tool, high-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) enables accessing molecular dynamics on femtosecond to attosecond time scales. However, decoding…

The detection of electron motion and electronic wavepacket dynamics is one of the core goals of attosecond science. Recently, choosing the nitric oxide (NO) molecule as an example, we have introduced and demonstrated a new experimental…

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We consider a quantum space with rotationally invariant noncommutative algebra of coordinates and momenta. The algebra contains tensors of noncommutativity constructed involving additional coordinates and momenta. In the rotationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Kh. P. Gnatenko