Coherent Electronic Wave Packet Motion in C60 Controlled by the Waveform and Polarization of Few-Cycle Laser Fields

H. Li, B. Mignolet, G. Wachter, S. Skruszewicz, S. Zherebtsov, F. Süßmann, A. Kessel, S. A. Trushin, Nora G. Kling, M. Kübel, B. Ahn, D. Kim, I. Ben-Itzhak, C. L. Cocke, T. Fennel, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, C. Lemell, J. Burgdörfer, R. D. Levine, F. Remacle, and M. F. Kling
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 123004 – Published 27 March 2015
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Abstract

Strong laser fields can be used to trigger an ultrafast molecular response that involves electronic excitation and ionization dynamics. Here, we report on the experimental control of the spatial localization of the electronic excitation in the C60 fullerene exerted by an intense few-cycle (4 fs) pulse at 720 nm. The control is achieved by tailoring the carrier-envelope phase and the polarization of the laser pulse. We find that the maxima and minima of the photoemission-asymmetry parameter along the laser-polarization axis are synchronized with the localization of the coherent electronic wave packet at around the time of ionization.

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  • Received 12 September 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.123004

© 2015 American Physical Society

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H. Li1,2,3, B. Mignolet4, G. Wachter5, S. Skruszewicz6, S. Zherebtsov1,2, F. Süßmann1,2, A. Kessel1, S. A. Trushin1, Nora G. Kling2,3, M. Kübel1,2, B. Ahn1,7,8, D. Kim7,8, I. Ben-Itzhak3, C. L. Cocke3, T. Fennel6, J. Tiggesbäumker6, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer6, C. Lemell5, J. Burgdörfer5,9, R. D. Levine10,11, F. Remacle4, and M. F. Kling1,2,3

  • 1Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching D-85748, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
  • 3J.R. MacDonald Laboratory, Physics Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
  • 4Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Liège B-4000, Belgium
  • 5Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna A-1040, Austria
  • 6Institute of Physics, Universität Rostock, Rostock D-18051, Germany
  • 7Physics Department, CASTECH, POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, Republic of Korea
  • 8Max Planck Center for Attosecond Science, Max Planck POSTECH/KOREA Research Initiative, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea
  • 9Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), Debrecen H-4001, Hungary
  • 10Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
  • 11Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

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Vol. 114, Iss. 12 — 27 March 2015

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