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20162025
most citedStudying ultrafast Rabi dynamics with a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser

107 citations · 372 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.atom-ph2025

Dichroic Electron Emission Patterns from Oriented Helium Ions

Niclas Wieland, Klaus Bartschat, Filippa Dudda +17

We report a joint experimental and theoretical study using a combination of polarization-controlled free-electron-laser (FEL) and near-infra\-red (NIR) pulses in a synchronized two…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ultrafast dynamics of vibronically dressed core-excitons in graphite: a femtosecond RIXS perspective

Marco Malvestuto, Beatrice Volpato, Elena Babici +16

This study demonstrates one of the first implementations of time-resolved resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (tr-RIXS), marking a seminal extension of RIXS spectroscopy into the u…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 3 cited

Circular Dichroism in Multiphoton Ionization of Resonantly Excited Helium Ions near Channel Closing

Rene Wagner, Markus Ilchen, Nicolas Douguet +16

The circular dichroism (CD) of photoelectrons generated by near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses using multiphoton ionization of excited He ions in the 3p(m=+1) state. The ions were…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 35 cited

Strong-field quantum control in the extreme ultraviolet using pulse shaping

Fabian Richter, Ulf Saalmann, Enrico Allaria +40

Tailored light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime enable the manipulation and control of quantum systems with up to unit efficiency, with applications ranging from q…

quant-ph2023★ 30 cited

Generation of entanglement using a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser

Saikat Nandi, Axel Stenquist, Asimina Papoulia +25

Quantum entanglement between the degrees of freedom encountered in the classical world is challenging to observe due to the surrounding environment. To elucidate this issue, we inv…

physics.optics2023★ 27 cited

High-resolution ptychographic imaging at a seeded free-electron laser source using OAM beams

M. Pancaldi, F. Guzzi, C. S. Bevis +21

Electromagnetic waves possessing orbital angular momentum (OAM) are powerful tools for applications in optical communications, new quantum technologies and optical tweezers. Recent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 3 cited

FEL stochastic spectroscopy revealing silicon bond softening dynamics

Dario De Angelis, Emiliano Principi, Filippo Bencivenga +20

Time-resolved X-ray Emission/Absorption Spectroscopy (Tr-XES/XAS) is an informative experimental tool sensitive to electronic dynamics in materials, widely exploited in diverse res…

physics.atm-clus2022

Extreme ultraviolet wave packet interferometry of the autoionizing HeNe dimer

Daniel Uhl, Andreas Wituschek, Rupert Michiels +24

Femtosecond extreme ultraviolet wave packet interferometry (XUV-WPI) was applied to study resonant inter-atomic Coulombic decay (ICD) in the HeNe dimer. The high demands on phase s…

physics.chem-ph2022

The photochemical ring-opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene: complex dynamical evolution of the reactive state

O. Travnikova, T. Piteša, A. Ponzi +19

The photochemically induced ring-opening isomerization reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) to 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) is a textbook example of a pericyclic reaction, and has been am…

quant-ph2022★ 107 cited

Studying ultrafast Rabi dynamics with a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser

Saikat Nandi, Edvin Olofsson, Mattias Bertolino +26

Rabi oscillations are periodic modulations of populations in two-level systems interacting with a time-varying field. They are ubiquitous in physics with applications in different…

physics.atm-clus2021★ 11 cited

Collective enhancement of above threshold ionization by resonantly excited helium nanodroplets

R. Michiels, M. Abu-samha, L. B. Madsen +18

Clusters and nanodroplets hold the promise of enhancing high-order nonlinear optical effects due to their high local density. However, only moderate enhancement has been demonstrat…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Observation of magnetic helicoidal dichroism with extreme ultraviolet light vortices

Mauro Fanciulli, Matteo Pancaldi, Emanuele Pedersoli +17

We report on the experimental evidence of magnetic helicoidal dichroism, observed in the interaction of an extreme ultraviolet vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum with a…

eess.IV2019

Pulse-to-pulse wavefront sensing at free-electron lasers using ptychography

Simone Sala, Benedikt J. Daurer, Michal Odstrcil +7

The pressing need for the detailed wavefront properties of ultra-bright and ultra-short pulses produced by free-electron lasers (FELs) has spurred the development of several comple…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 17 cited

Single shot time-resolved magnetic x-ray absorption at a Free Electron Laser

Emmanuelle Jal, Mikako Makita, Benedikt Rösner +18

Ultrafast dynamics are generally investigated using stroboscopic pump-probe measurements, which characterize the sample properties for a single, specific time delay. These measurem…

physics.optics2018★ 65 cited

Seeded x-ray free-electron laser generating radiation with laser statistical properties

O. Yu. Gorobtsov, G. Mercurio, F. Capotondi +12

The invention of optical lasers led to a revolution in the field of optics and even to the creation of completely new fields of research such as quantum optics. The reason was thei…

physics.ins-det2017★ 21 cited

In-situ single-shot diffractive fluence mapping for X-ray free-electron laser pulses

Michael Schneider, Christian M. Günther, Bastian Pfau +7

Free-electron lasers (FEL) in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and X-ray regime opened up the possibility for experiments at high power densities, in particular allowing for fluence-d…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 52 cited

Soft x-rays induce femtosecond solid-to-solid phase transition

Franz Tavella, Hauke Höppner, Victor Tkachenko +12

Soft x-rays were applied to induce graphitization of diamond through a non-thermal solid-to-solid phase transition. This process was observed within poly-crystalline diamond with a…