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Tracking the coupled motion of electrons and nuclei on their intrinsic timescales is essential to understanding and controlling photochemical transformations. While attosecond techniques have provided unprecedented insight into electronic…

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) in potassium atom is investigated within the strong coupling regime using photoelectron momentum imaging techniques. The kinetic energy distribution of the ionized electrons reveals the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Wankai Li , Yixuan Wang , Xing Li , Tao Yang , Dongdong Zhang , Dajun Ding

We present fully ab initio simulations of attosecond streaking for ionization of helium accompanied by shake-up of the second electron. This process represents a prototypical case for strongly correlated electron dynamics on the attosecond…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Renate Pazourek , Stefan Nagele , Johannes Feist , Joachim Burgdörfer

This perspective introduces attosecond path qubits: measurement-defined two-level subsystems that arise naturally in strong-field physics from the coherent interference of distinguishable quantum pathways. These effective qubits are…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Oren Cohen

Ultrafast laser excitation can create coherent superpositions of electronic states in molecules and trigger ultrafast flow of electron density on few- to sub-femtosecond time scales. While recent attosecond experiments have addressed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Yuki Kobayashi , Daniel M. Neumark , Stephen R. Leone

We illustrate how attosecond light pulses can be used to directly mapping out the time-dependence of the correlated motion of two excited atomic electrons, discuss how the two-electron correlations manifest themselves in realistic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toru Morishita , Shinichi Watanabe , C. D. Lin

Exchange correlation plays an important role in double-ionization of complex atoms by ultrashort laser pulse. In this work, we investigate two-photon double inner-shell electron ionization of neon induced by an attosecond extreme…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Jianpeng Liu , Yongqiang Li , Jianmin Yuan

The ionization of an atom by a high-frequency intense laser pulse, where the energy of a single-photon is sufficient to ionize the system, is investigated from first principles. It is shown that as a consequence of an AC Stark effect in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Philipp V Demekhin , Lorenz S Cederbaum

Shake-up phenomena, rooted in the sudden approximation and many-body quantum dynamics, unveil critical characteristics of quantum systems, with wide-ranging applications in molecular spectroscopy and electronic structure studies. Here, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Vahid Azimi-Mousolou , Anna Delin , Erik Sjöqvist , Olle Eriksson

We theoretically investigate the scattering of an attosecond electron wave packet launched by an attosecond pulse under the influence of an infrared laser field. As the electron scatters inside a spatially extended system, the dressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Justin Gagnon , Ferenc Krausz , Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Isotopic substitution in molecular systems can affect fundamental molecular properties including the energy position and spacing of electronic, vibrational and rotational levels, thus modifying the dynamics associated to their coherent…

The ability to modulate free electrons with light has emerged as a powerful tool to produce attosecond electron wavepackets. However, research has so far aimed at the manipulation of the longitudinal wave function component, while the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-14 F. Javier García de Abajo , Claus Ropers

The coherent interaction with ultrashort light pulses is a powerful strategy for monitoring and controlling the dynamics of wave packets in all states of matter. As light presents an oscillation period of a few femtoseconds ($T=2.6$~fs in…

Attosecond streaking of photoelectrons emitted by extreme ultraviolet light has begun to reveal how electrons behave during their transport within simple crystalline solids. Many sample types within nanoplasmonics, thin-film physics, and…

We investigate the photoionization spectrum of helium by attosecond XUV pulses both in the spectral region of doubly excited resonances as well as above the double ionization threshold. In order to probe for convergence, we compare three…

Measuring the delay for an electron to emerge from different states is one of the major achievements of attosecond science. This delay can have two origins - the electron wave packet is reshaped during departure by the electrostatic field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Graham G. Brown , Dong Hyuk Ko , Chunmei Zhang , P. B. Corkum

Attosecond science is well developed for atoms and promising results have been obtained for molecules and solids. Here, we review the first steps in developing attosecond time-resolved measurements in liquids. These advances provide access…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-11 H. J. Wörner , A. Schild , D. Jelovina , I. Jordan , C. Perry , T. T. Luu , Z. Yin

We show that the complete photoemission dynamics in situations of electron-ion entanglement can be retrieved from photoelectron spectral measurements without information on the ion. To this end, we develop an energy-time analysis of the…

Energy coupling during relativistically intense laser-matter interactions is encoded in the attosecond motion of strongly driven electrons at the pre-formed plasma-vacuum boundary. Studying and controlling this motion can reveal details…