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20172026
most citedControlled enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules with an optical centrifuge

82 citations · 499 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Direct imaging of enantiomer-specific orientation dynamics in unidirectionally rotating chiral molecules

Kenta Mizuse, Ilia Tutunnikov, Long Xu +7

Selectively controlling the dynamics of molecular enantiomers underlies advances across chemistry, biology, and physics, yet direct imaging of enantiomer-specific motion has so far…

quant-ph2025

Characterization of Polariton Dynamics in a Multimode Cavity (II): Coherent-Incoherent Transition Driven by Photon Loss

Md Qutubuddin, Ilia Tutunnikov, Jianshu Cao

Motivated by the recent advances in optical imaging and tracking of wave-packet propagation in optical cavities, we systematically explore the non-Hermitian polariton dynamics with…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Echoes in a parametrically perturbed Kerr-nonlinear oscillator

Yun-Wen Mao, Ilia Tutunnikov, Roman V. Krems +1

We study classical and quantum echoes in a Kerr oscillator driven by a frequency-controlling pulsed perturbation. We consider dynamical response to the perturbation for a single co…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Cavity-Mediated Collective Resonant Suppression of Local Molecular Vibrations

Vasil Rokaj, Ilia Tutunnikov, H. R. Sadeghpour

Recent advances in polaritonic chemistry suggest that chemical reactions can be controlled via collective vibrational strong coupling (VSC) in a cavity. In this fully analytical wo…

quant-ph2024

Dynamical generation and transfer of nonclassical states in strongly interacting light-matter systems in cavities

Ilia Tutunnikov, Vasil Rokaj, Jianshu Cao +1

We propose leveraging strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling to efficiently generate and exchange nonclassical light and quantum matter states. Two initial conditions are con…

physics.optics2024

Noise-enhanced Ballistic Expansion of Polariton Wave-packets in a Multimode Cavity

Ilia Tutunnikov, Md Qutubuddin, H. R. Sadeghpour +1

Advances in optical measurements enable precise tracking of cavity polariton wave-packets across broad spatial and temporal ranges, but how dephasing reshapes their real-space dyna…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Unusual Diffusivity in Strongly Disordered Quantum Lattices: Random Dimer Model

Ilia Tutunnikov, Jianshu Cao

Recent advances in transport properties measurements of disordered materials and lattice simulations, using superconducting qubits, have rekindled interest in Anderson localization…

physics.chem-ph2023

Enhanced Persistent Orientation of Asymmetric-Top Molecules Induced by Cross-Polarized Terahertz Pulses

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Yehiam Prior +1

We investigate the persistent orientation of asymmetric-top molecules induced by time-delayed THz pulses that are either collinearly or cross polarized. Our theoretical and numeric…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Coherent spatial control of wave packet dynamics on quantum lattices

Ilia Tutunnikov, Chern Chuang, Jianshu Cao

Quantum lattices are pivotal in the burgeoning fields of quantum materials and information science. Rapid developments in microscopy and quantum engineering allow for preparing and…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 1 cited

Ionization-induced Long-lasting Orientation of Symmetric-top Molecules

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Yehiam Prior +1

We theoretically consider the phenomenon of field-free long-lasting orientation of symmetric-top molecules ionized by two-color laser pulses. The anisotropic ionization produces a…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 10 cited

Echo-enhanced molecular orientation at high temperatures

Ilia Tutunnikov, Long Xu, Yehiam Prior +1

Ultrashort laser pulses are widely used for transient field-free molecular orientation -- a phenomenon important in chemical reaction dynamics, ultrafast molecular imaging, high ha…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Gradient-based reconstruction of molecular Hamiltonians and density matrices from time-dependent quantum observables

Wucheng Zhang, Ilia Tutunnikov, Ilya Sh. Averbukh +1

We consider a quantum system with a time-independent Hamiltonian parametrized by a set of unknown parameters . The system is prepared in a general quantum state by an evolution…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Optimal Selective Orientation of Chiral Molecules Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Yehiam Prior +1

We present a comprehensive study of enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules excited by a pair of delayed cross-polarized femtosecond laser pulses. We show that by optimizi…

physics.optics2021★ 14 cited

Rotation of polarization of light propagating through a gas of molecular super-rotors

Ilia Tutunnikov, Uri Steinitz, Erez Gershnabel +4

We present a detailed theoretical and experimental study of the rotation of the plane of polarization of light traveling through a gas of fast-spinning molecules. This effect is si…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Visualizing coherent molecular rotation in a gaseous medium

Ilia Tutunnikov, Emilien Prost, Uri Steinitz +5

Inducing and controlling the ultrafast molecular rotational dynamics using shaped laser fields is essential in numerous applications. Several approaches exist that allow following…

physics.optics2021★ 12 cited

Three Dimensional Orientation of Complex Molecules Excited by Two-Color Femtosecond Pulses

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Yehiam Prior +1

We study the excitation of asymmetric-top (including chiral) molecules by two-color femtosecond laser pulses. In the cases of non-chiral asymmetric-top molecules excited by an orth…

physics.optics2021★ 6 cited

Long-Lasting Orientation of Symmetric-top Molecules Excited by Two-Color Femtosecond Pulses

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Yehiam Prior +1

Impulsive orientation of symmetric-top molecules excited by two-color femtosecond pulses is considered. In addition to the well-known transient orientation appearing immediately af…

physics.optics2020★ 25 cited

Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules Induced by Terahertz Pulses with Twisted Polarization

Ilia Tutunnikov, Long Xu, Robert W. Field +3

Chirality and chiral molecules are key elements in modern chemical and biochemical industries. Individual addressing, and the eventual separation of chiral enantiomers has been and…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Impulsively Excited Gravitational Quantum States: Echoes and Time-resolved Spectroscopy

I. Tutunnikov, K. V. Rajitha, A. Yu. Voronin +2

We theoretically study an impulsively excited quantum bouncer (QB) - a particle bouncing off a surface in the presence of gravity. A pair of time-delayed pulsed excitations is show…

quant-ph2020★ 6 cited

Echoes in a Single Quantum Kerr-nonlinear Oscillator

I. Tutunnikov, K. V. Rajitha, I. Sh. Averbukh

Quantum Kerr-nonlinear oscillator is a paradigmatic model in cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics, and quantum optomechanics. We theoretically study the echo phenomenon in a…

physics.optics2020★ 15 cited

Echoes in Unidirectionally Rotating Molecules

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Lianrong Zhou +6

Abstract We report the experimental observation of molecular unidirectional rotation (UDR) echoes, and analyze their origin and behavior both classically and quantum mechanically.…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 18 cited

Bayesian optimization for inverse problems in time-dependent quantum dynamics

Z. Deng, I. Tutunnikov, I. Sh. Averbukh +2

We demonstrate an efficient algorithm for inverse problems in time-dependent quantum dynamics based on feedback loops between Hamiltonian parameters and the solutions of the Schröd…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 33 cited

Long-lasting Molecular Orientation Induced by a Single Terahertz Pulse

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Erez Gershnabel +2

Control of molecular rotations by laser fields is an active area of research focusing on the alignment/orientation of otherwise isotropic molecular samples. Oriented molecules are…

physics.optics2019★ 20 cited

Optical imaging of coherent molecular rotors

Jérémy Bert, Emilien Prost, Ilia Tutunnikov +7

Short laser pulses are widely used for controlling molecular rotational degrees of freedom and inducing molecular alignment, orientation, unidirectional rotation and other types of…