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20202026
most citedGeneration of optical Schrödinger cat states in intense laser-matter interactions

166 citations · 645 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Symmetry and Quantum Interference in the Attosecond Domain

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, S. Hashim, J. Rivera-Dean +1

In this review, we examine the interplay of symmetry and quantum interference in the attosecond domain primarily through one- and two-electron photoelectron momentum distributions.…

physics.optics2026

Geometric Control of Cat States in High Harmonic Generation

Arti Gaharwar, Rocío Borrego-Varillas, Marcelo F. Ciappina +6

High-harmonic generation (HHG) provides a powerful platform for exploring the interaction between intense laser fields and matter on ultrafast timescales. Beyond its conventional d…

quant-ph2026

Attosecond metrology of bright quantum light

P. Stammer, J. Rivera-Dean, E. Pisanty +1

Attosecond metrology is the ability to measure ultrafast optical light-wave oscillations, yet its approach has been limited to classical fields. Hence, the influence of the fluctua…

physics.atom-ph2026

Two-Electron Effects Extend High-Harmonic Generation into the keV Regime

Isobel McSweeney, Andres Marchisio, Javier Rivera-Dean +4

Two-electron processes can generate high harmonics beyond the conventional single-active-electron cutoff. Motivated by recent experimental evidence of an extended secondary plateau…

quant-ph2026

Emergence of Gaussian entanglement and non-Gaussianity in high-harmonic generation driven by bright squeezed light

J. Rivera-Dean, M. Even-Tzur, M. F. Ciappina +3

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a highly nonlinear optical process in which radiation from a strong driving field is up-converted into its high-order harmonics. In atomic systems…

quant-ph2026

Photon anti-bunching in high harmonic generation

Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Maciej Lewenstein

Photon anti-bunching is the direct evidence for the existence of photons without having a classical counterpart. Unlike bunching of photons, which can have a semi-classical descrip…

quant-ph2026

Erasing photons from bright squeezed vacuum light via above-threshold ionization

J. Rivera-Dean, T. Rook, G. Singh +4

While the interface between strong-field physics and quantum optics offers a unique regime for combining extreme nonlinearity with quantum optical resources, its potential for gene…

physics.optics2026

Symmetry breaking by quantum light in solid-state high-harmonic generation

P. Stammer, J. Rivera-Dean, D. Kim +3

Symmetry governs nonlinear interactions in condensed matter systems, particularly in high-harmonic generation (HHG), the interplay between the driving field and crystal symmetries…

quant-ph2026

Interferometrically Enhanced Asymmetry in Strong-field Ionization with Bright Squeezed Vacuum

G. Singh, T. Rook, J. Rivera-Dean +1

We demonstrate that quantum light statistics can be used to control strong-field ionization at the tunneling step. Using a bichromatic linearly polarized field composed of a strong…

quant-ph2026

Fluctuation-induced symmetry breaking in high harmonic generation for bicircular quantum light

Philipp Stammer, Camilo Granados, Javier Rivera-Dean

Symmetries are ubiquitous in physics and play a pivotal role in light-matter interactions, where they determine the selection rules governing allowed atomic transitions and define…

quant-ph2026

Generation of circular polarized high-order harmonics from single color quantum light

Lidija Petrovic, Philipp Stammer, Maciej Lewenstein +1

The atomic response to an ultra-intense driving field produces a characteristic high-harmonic spectrum featuring a rapid drop in intensity for the lower harmonics, followed by a pl…

physics.optics2026

Attosecond quantum optics

Mohamed Sennary, Javier Rivera-Dean, Yihe Wange +2

Modern quantum optics primarily operates in the quasistationary regime, isolated from the intrinsic timescales of ultrafast optical fields. Pushing these boundaries into the femtos…

quant-ph2025

Attosecond quantum optical interferometry

Javier Rivera-Dean, Lidija Petrovic, Maciej Lewenstein +1

In this work, we explore the scheme of attosecond quantum interferometry (AQI), the quantum optical version of classical attosecond interferometry, which allows to measure quantum…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Optics and Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Field Processes

Marcelo F. Ciappina, Misha Yu. Ivanov, Maciej Lewenstein +3

In its beginnings, the physics of intense laser-matter interactions was the physics of multiphoton processes. The theory was reduced then to high-order perturbation theory, while t…

quant-ph2025

Propagation of intense squeezed vacuum light in non-linear media

Javier Rivera-Dean, Deeksha Kanti, Philipp Stammer +5

Recent developments in quantum light engineering have enabled the use of infrared bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) femtosecond pulses in highly nonlinear optics, particularly strong fi…

quant-ph2025

Weak measurement in strong laser field physics

Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Marcelo F. Ciappina +1

The advantage of attosecond measurements is the possibility of time-resolving ultrafast quantum phenomena of electron dynamics. Many such measurements are of interferometric nature…

quant-ph2025

Microscopic analysis of above-threshold ionization driven by squeezed light

J. Rivera-Dean, P. Stammer, C. Figueira de Morisson Faria +1

Above-threshold ionization (ATI) is a strong-field-driven process where electrons absorb more photons than required for ionization. While ATI dynamics and outputs are well-understo…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Kramers-Henneberger Transformation

Javier Argüello-Luengo, Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer +2

The classical Kramers-Henneberger transformation connects, via a series of unitary transformations, the dynamics of a quantum particle of mass located in a trap at position $α(…

quant-ph2025

Theory of quantum optics and optical coherence in high harmonic generation

Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Maciej Lewenstein

Optical coherence encodes information about the correlations of the electromagnetic field. In combination with quantum optical approaches, it allows for the study of the correlatio…

physics.optics2024★ 14 cited

Ultrafast quantum light uncertainty dynamics in real time

Mohamed Sennary, Javier Rivera-Dean, Mohamed ElKabbash +3

Advancements in quantum optics and squeezed light generation have transformed various domains of quantum science and technology. However, real-time quantum dynamics remain an under…

quant-ph2024★ 17 cited

Structured squeezed light allows for high-harmonic generation in classical forbidden geometries

J. Rivera-Dean, P. Stammer, M. F. Ciappina +1

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a strong driving field interacts with a material, resulting in the frequency up-conversion of the driver into its hig…

quant-ph2024

About the role of short and long trajectories on the quantum optical state after high-harmonic generation

Javier Rivera-Dean

High-harmonic generation (HHG) involves the up-conversion of a high-intensity driving field into its harmonic orders. This process is intrinsically non-classical, requiring from qu…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Quantum state engineering of light using intensity measurements and post-selection

J. Rivera-Dean, Th. Lamprou, E. Pisanty +4

Quantum state engineering of light is of great interest for quantum technologies, particularly generating non-classical states of light, and is often studied through quantum condit…

quant-ph2024★ 16 cited

Squeezed states of light after high-harmonic generation in excited atomic systems

J. Rivera-Dean, H. B. Crispin, P. Stammer +6

High-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently emerged as a promising method for generating non-classical states of light with frequencies spanning from the infrared up to the extreme…