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

166 citations · 288 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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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…

physics.atom-ph2026

Electron Correlation Enables Phase-Coherent One-Attosecond Pulse Trains

Andrés Marchisio, Isobel McSweeney, Paraskevas Tzallas +2

Attosecond synthesis is ultimately a phase problem: a broad spectrum produces an ultrashort waveform only if its harmonics remain phase-locked. We show theoretically that correlate…

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-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-ph2024

Recent developments in the generation of non-classical and entangled light states using intense laser-matter interactions

Th. Lamprou, P. Stammer, J. Rivera-Dean +4

Non-classical and entangled light states are of fundamental interest in quantum mechanics and they are a powerful tool for the emergence of new quantum technologies. The developmen…

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…

quant-ph2023

Nonclassical states of light after high-harmonic generation in semiconductors: a Bloch-based perspective

Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer, Andrew S. Maxwell +6

High-harmonic generation has emerged as a pivotal process in strong-field physics, yielding extreme ultraviolet radiation and attosecond pulses with a wide range of applications. F…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Nonlinear optics using intense optical coherent state superpositions

Theocharis Lamprou, Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer +2

Superpositions of coherent light states, are vital for quantum technologies. However, restrictions in existing state preparation and characterization schemes, in combination with d…

quant-ph2022★ 37 cited

Light-matter entanglement after above-threshold ionization processes in atoms

Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer, Andrew S. Maxwell +4

Light-matter entanglement plays a fundamental role in many applications of quantum information science. Thus, finding processes where it can be observed is an important task. Here,…

physics.optics2020★ 166 cited

Generation of optical Schrödinger cat states in intense laser-matter interactions

Maciej Lewenstein, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Emilio Pisanty +4

The physics of intense laser-matter interactions is described by treating the light pulses classically, anticipating no need to access optical measurements beyond the classical lim…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 50 cited

Quantum optical signatures in strong-field laser physics: Infrared photon counting in high-order-harmonic generation

I. A. Gonoskov, N. Tsatrafyllis, I. K. Kominis +1

We analytically describe the strong-field light-electron interaction using a quantized coherent laser state with arbitrary photon number. We obtain a light-electron wave function w…