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We consider coherent dynamics of graphene charged carriers exposed to an intense few-cycle linearly polarized laser pulse. The results, obtained by solving the generalized semiconductor Bloch equations numerically in the Hartree-Fock…

We studied dependence of dissociative ionization in H2 on carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of few-cycle (6fs) near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses. For low-energy channels, we present the first experimental observation of CEP dependence for total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Han Xu , J - P Maclean , D E Laban , W C Wallace , D Kielpinski , R T Sang , I V Litvinyuk

The spin polarization of photoelectrons induced by an intense linearly polarized laser field is investigated using numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in companion with our analytic treatment via the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Pei-Lun He , Zhao-Han Zhang , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We derive a simple expression for the photon helicity and polarisation-flip probabilities in arbitrary background fields, in the low energy regime. Taking the background to model a focused laser beam, we study the impact of pulse shape and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-28 Victor Dinu , Tom Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Greger Torgrimsson

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

The ability to measure and control the carrier envelope phase (CEP) of few-cycle laser pulses is of paramount importance for both frequency metrology and attosecond science. Here, we present a phase meter relying on the CEP-dependent…

We show experimentally and theoretically that vortex-shaped structures in the photoelectron momentum distribution can be observed for atoms interacting with a single intense elliptically polarized laser pulse. Our analysis reveals that…

We present a detailed quantum mechanical treatment of the photodetachment of H$^{-}$ by a short laser pulse in the presence of crossed static electric and magnetic fields. An exact analytic formula is presented for the final state electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liang-You Peng , Qiaoling Wang , Anthony F. Starace

We investigate, from a theoretical perspective, photo-emission of electrons induced by ultra-short infrared pulses covering only a few photon cycles. In particular, we investigate the impact of the Carrier-Envelope Phase (CEP) of the laser…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-01-17 Paul-Gerhard Reinhard , Eric Suraud , Chris Meier

Circularly-polarized light is well-known to induce, or flip the direction of, magnetization in solids. At its heart, this arises from time-reversal symmetry breaking by the vector potential, causing inverse-Faraday or analogous physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ofer Neufeld

We investigate the polarization properties of high harmonics generated with the bichromatic counterrotating circularly polarized (BCCP) laser fields by numerically solving time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE). It is found that, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Xiaofan Zhang , Liang Li , Xiaosong Zhu , Xi Liu , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

Single cycle laser pulse propagating inside a plasma causes controllable asymmetric plasma electron expulsion from laser according to laser carrier envelope phase (CEP) and forms an oscillating plasma bubble. Bubble's transverse wakefield…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 J. Kim , T. Wang , V. Khudik , G. Shvets

Vortices are topological objects carrying quantized orbital angular momentum and have been widely studied in many physical systems for their applicability in information storage and processing. In systems with spin degree of freedom the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Matthias Pukrop , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

High-energy vortex $\gamma$ photons have significant applications in many fields, however, their generation and angular momentum manipulation are still great challenges. Here, we first investigated the generation of vortex $\gamma$ photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Jing-Jing Jiang , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Jia-Ding Chen , Jian-Xing Li , Yue-Yue Chen

The availability of few-cycle optical pulses opens a window to physical phenomena occurring on the attosecond time scale. In order to take full advantage of such pulses, it is crucial to measure and stabilise their carrier-envelope (CE)…

Recent experiments [D. Pengel, S. Kerbstadt, L. Englert, T. Bayer, and M. Wollenhaupt, \href{https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.043426}{{\PRA} {\bf 96} 043426 (2017)}] have measured the photoelectron momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 G. S. J. Armstrong , D. D. A. Clarke , J. Benda , J. Wragg , A. C. Brown , H. W. van der Hart

We propose a scheme for generating two-dimensional turbulence in harmonically trapped atomic condensates with the novelty of controlling the polarization (net rotation) of the turbulence. Our scheme is based on an initial giant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-06 A. Cidrim , F. E. A. dos Santos , L. Galantucci , V. S. Bagnato , C. F. Barenghi

Similar to light polarization that is selected by a superposition of optical basis, electron spin direction can be controlled through a superposition of spin basis. We investigate such a spin interference occurring in photoemission of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , Ryo Noguchi , Ayumi Harasawa , Shik Shin , Takeshi Kondo , Fumio Komori

Coherent control of the atomic two-photon absorption with shaped single-cycle pulses is examined theoretically in the weak-field regime. The control over the stabilized carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the pulses is determined as a key…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 Lev Chuntonov , Avner Fleischer , Zohar Amitay

Using a model methane-like chiral system, we theoretically demonstrate a possibility to access photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) by a single experiment with two overlapping laser pulses of carrier frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$,…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-12-20 Philipp V. Demekhin , Anton N. Artemyev , Alexander Kastner , Thomas Baumert