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20092026
most citedLaser-driven nonlinear cluster dynamics

427 citations · 1.7k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces

Samuel Sahel-Schackis, Adam Summers, Ritika Dagar +29

The trihydrogen cation () initiates the ion-molecule reactions that build molecular complexity in interstellar space. Whether its canonical formation reaction, $\ma…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A finite-difference model for intense light interactions with dielectrics in the ultrafast ionization regime

Julia Apportin, Christian Peltz, Pavel Polynkin +3

We present a computationally efficient model that describes the interaction of intense, ultrashort infrared laser pulses with transparent materials in the strong ionization regime.…

physics.optics2025

Cross-process interference in single-cycle electron emission from metal needle tips

Anne Herzig, Peter Hommelhoff, Eleftherios Goulielmakis +2

Though interference from different emission channels enabled a deeper understanding of strong-field photoemission in atoms and molecules, it remained out of reach for solids. Here,…

physics.optics2025

Dichography: Two-frame Ultrafast Imaging from a Single Diffraction Pattern

Linos Hecht, Andre Al Haddad, Björn Bastian +47

We experimentally demonstrate that pairs of time-delayed ultrabright and ultrashort X-ray pulses of two different colors, delivered by modern X-ray Free Electron Lasers, can provid…

physics.optics2025

Model-free pattern separation of two-color ultrafast X-ray diffraction

Linos Hecht, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Asbjørn Ø. Lægdsmand +28

Two-color X-ray imaging with Free Electron Laser pulses offers a powerful approach for probing ultrafast structural dynamics in nanoscale systems, combining (near-)atomic spatial r…

physics.optics2025

Laser-induced transient opacity in helium nanodroplets probed by single-shot coherent diffraction

Julian C. Schäfer-Zimmermann, Tom von Scheven, Katharina Kolatzki +13

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) with intense short-wavelength light pulses enables the structural characterization of individual nanoparticles in free flight with hi…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Fast Simulation of Wide-Angle Coherent Diffractive Imaging

Paul Tuemmler, Julia Apportin, Thomas Fennel +1

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) using intense XUV and soft X-ray pulses holds the promise to deliver information on the three dimensional shape as well as the optica…

physics.optics2025★ 8 cited

Attosecond physics in optical near fields

Jonas Heimerl, Stefan Meier, Anne Herzig +8

Attosecond science, the electron control by the field of ultrashort laser pulses, is maturing into lightfield-driven electronics, called petahertz electronics. Based on optical fie…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

SPRING: an effective and reliable framework for image reconstruction in single-particle Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Alessandro Colombo, Mario Sauppe, Andre Al Haddad +40

Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) is an experimental technique to gain images of isolated structures by recording the light scattered off the sample. In principle, the sample dens…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Coherent control of orbital wavefunctions in the quantum spin liquid

R. Mankowsky, M. Müller, M. Sander +15

Resonant driving of electronic transitions with coherent laser sources creates quantum coherent superpositions of the involved electronic states. Most time-resolved studies have fo…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 8 cited

Melting, bubble-like expansion and explosion of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles

Simon Dold, Thomas Reichenbach, Alessandro Colombo +32

We report on time-resolved coherent diffraction imaging of gas-phase silver nanoparticles, strongly heated via their plasmon resonance. The x-ray diffraction images reveal a broad…

physics.optics2023★ 57 cited

Tracing attosecond electron emission from a nanometric metal tip

Philip Dienstbier, Lennart Seiffert, Timo Paschen +4

Solids exposed to intense electric fields release electrons through tunnelling. This fundamental quantum process lies at the heart of various applications, ranging from high bright…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 9 cited

Electron energy loss and angular asymmetry induced by elastic scattering in helium droplets

Jakob D. Asmussen, Keshav Sishodia, Björn Bastian +10

Helium nanodroplets are ideal model systems to unravel the complex interaction of condensed matter with ionizing radiation. Here we study the effect of purely elastic electron scat…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 9 cited

Efficient Indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Photoelectron Impact Excitation in Large He Nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, K. Sishodia, S. Mandal +7

Ionization of matter by energetic radiation generally causes complex secondary reactions which are hard to decipher. Using large helium nanodroplets irradiated by XUV photons, we s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Generation of Large Vortex-Free Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Anatoli Ulmer, Andrea Heilrath, Björn Senfftleben +38

Superfluid helium nanodroplets are an ideal environment for the formation of metastable, self-organized dopant nanostructures. However, the presence of vortices often hinders their…

physics.atm-clus2022★ 9 cited

Three-Dimensional Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Isolated Faceted Nanostructures

Alessandro Colombo, Simon Dold, Patrice Kolb +29

The structure and dynamics of isolated nanosamples in free flight can be directly visualized via single-shot coherent diffractive imaging using the intense and short pulses of X-ra…

physics.optics2022★ 108 cited

Attosecond Field Emission

H. Y. Kim, M. Garg, S. Mandal +3

Field-emission of electrons underlies major advances in science and technology, ranging from imaging the atomic-scale structure of matter to signal processing at ever-higher freque…

physics.atm-clus2022★ 11 cited

Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets

Bruno Langbehn, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Andrew Clark +23

We have explored the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle scattering in a pump-probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon atoms…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 8 cited

The Scatman: an approximate method for fast wide-angle scattering simulations

Alessandro Colombo, Julian Zimmermann, Bruno Langbehn +8

Single-shot Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) is a powerful approach to characterize the structure and dynamics of isolated nanoscale objects such as single viruses, aerosols, nan…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Strong-field physics with nanospheres

Lennart Seiffert, Sergey Zherebtsov, Matthias F. Kling +1

When intense laser fields interact with nanoscale targets, strong-field physics meets plasmonic near-field enhancement and sub-wavelength localization of light. Photoemission spect…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 19 cited

Few-femtosecond resolved imaging of laser-driven nanoplasma expansion

C. Peltz, J. A. Powell, P. Rupp +23

The free expansion of a planar plasma surface is a fundamental non-equilibrium process relevant for various fields but as-yet experimentally still difficult to capture. The signifi…

physics.optics2021

Characterization of laser-induced ionization dynamics in solid dielectrics

Peter Jürgens, Benjamin Liewehr, Björn Kruse +8

The formation of an electron-hole plasma during the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with transparent solids lies at the heart of femtosecond laser processing. Advan…

physics.optics2021

Onset of space-charge effects in strong-field photocurrents from nanometric needle tips

J. Schötz, L. Seiffert, A. Maliakkal +8

Strong-field photoemission from nanostructures and the associated temporally modulated currents play a key role in the development of ultrafast vacuum optoelectronics. Optical ligh…

physics.optics2020★ 4 cited

Quantum coherent diffractive imaging

Björn Kruse, Benjamin Liewehr, Christian Peltz +1

Coherent diffractive imaging has enabled the structural analysis of individual free nanoparticles in a single shot and offers the tracking of their light induced dynamics with unpr…