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most citedNonlinear optical signals and spectroscopy with quantum light

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31 papers

quant-ph2025

Beating the standard quantum limit with single-photon-added coherent states

Pankaj K. Jha, Lakshya Nagpal, Amir Targholizadeh +2

The standard quantum limit (SQL), also known as the shot-noise limit, defines how quantum fluctuations of light constrain measurement precision. In a benchmark experiment using the…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Photon-resolved Floquet theory approach to spectroscopic quantum sensing

Georg Engelhardt, Konstantin Dorfman, Zhedong Zhang

Spectroscopic methods play a vital role in quantum sensing, which uses the quantized nature of atoms or molecules to reach astonishing precision for sensing of, e.g., electric or m…

physics.optics2022

Catching the geometric phase effect around conical intersection in molecules by high order harmonic spectroscopy

Guanglu Yuan, Ruifeng Lu, Shicheng Jiang +1

Nonadiabatic dynamics around an avoid crossing or a conical intersection play a crucial role in the photoinduced processes of most polyatomic molecules. The present work shows that…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Coherence enhanced quantum-dot heat engine

Jaegon Um, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Hyunggyu Park

We show that quantum coherence can enhance the performance of a continuous quantum heat engine in the Lindblad description. We investigate the steady-state solutions of the particl…

quant-ph2021★ 19 cited

Interferometric-Spectroscopy With Quantum-Light; Revealing Out-of-Time-Ordering Correlators

Shahaf Asban, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

We survey the inclusion of interferometric elements in nonlinear spectroscopy performed with quantum light. Controlled interference of electromagnetic fields coupled to matter can…

quant-ph2021★ 14 cited

Incoherent control of optical signals; quantum heat engine approach

Md Qutubuddin, Konstantin E. Dorfman

Optical pump-probe signals can be viewed as work done by the matter while transferring the energy between two coherent baths (from pump to probe). In thermodynamics a heat engine,…

quant-ph2021

Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry and spectroscopy using entangled photons

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shahaf Asban, Bing Gu +1

Optical interferometry has been a long-standing setup for characterization of quantum states of light. Both the linear and the nonlinear interferences can provide information about…

physics.optics2021★ 15 cited

Revealing topological phase in Pancharatnam-Berry metasurfaces using mesoscopic electrodynamics

Zhanjie Gao, Sandeep Golla, Rajath Sawant +6

Relying on the local orientation of nanostructures, Pancharatnam-Berry metasurfaces are currently enabling a new generation of polarization-sensitive optical devices. A systematica…

quant-ph2019★ 31 cited

Quantum phase-sensitive diffraction and imaging using entangled photons

Shahaf Asban, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

We propose a novel quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 1 cited

Monitoring Spontaneous Charge-density Fluctuations by Single-molecule Diffraction of Quantum Light

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shahaf Asban, Lyuzhou Ye +3

Homodyne X-ray diffraction signals produced by classical light and classical detectors are given by the modulus square of the charge density in momentum space $\left|σ(\mathbf{q})\…

quant-ph2018★ 90 cited

Efficiency at Maximum Power of Laser Quantum Heat Engine Enhanced by Noise-Induced Coherence

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Dazhi Xu, Jianshu Cao

Quantum coherence has been demonstrated in various systems including organic solar cells and solid state devices. In this letter, we report the lower and upper bounds for the perfo…

quant-ph2016★ 360 cited

Nonlinear optical signals and spectroscopy with quantum light

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Frank Schlawin, Shaul Mukamel

Conventional nonlinear spectroscopy uses classical light to detect matter properties through the variation of its response with frequencies or time delays. Quantum light opens up n…

quant-ph2016★ 12 cited

Time-and-frequency gated photon coincidence counting; a novel multidimensional spectroscopy tool

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

Coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy techniques are broadly applied across the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from NMR to the UV. These reveal properties of matter thro…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 167 cited

Catching Conical Intersections in the Act; Monitoring Transient Electronic Coherences by Attosecond Stimulated X-Ray Raman Signals

Markus Kowalewski, Kochise Bennett, Konstantin E. Dorfman +1

Conical intersections (CoIn) dominate the pathways and outcomes of virtually all photophysical and photochemical molecular processes. Despite extensive experimental and theoretical…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 19 cited

Detecting Electronic Coherence by Multidimensional Broadband Stimulated X-Ray Raman Signals

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Kochise Bennett, Shaul Mukamel

Nonstationary molecular states which contain electronic coherences can be impulsively created and manipulated by using recently-developed ultrashort optical and X-ray pulses via ph…

quant-ph2015★ 35 cited

Nonlinear fluctuations and dissipation in matter revealed by quantum light

Shaul Mukamel, Konstantin E. Dorfman

Quantum optical fields offer numerous control knobs which are not available with classical light and may be used for monitoring the properties of matter by novel types of spectrosc…

quant-ph2015★ 12 cited

Stochastic Liouville Equations for Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy

Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Hideo Ando, Konstantin E. Dorfman +1

Electron and vibrational dynamics of molecules are commonly studied by subjecting them to two interactions with a fast actinic pulse that prepares them in a nonstationary state and…

quant-ph2015★ 2 cited

Evaluation of optical probe signals from nonequilibrium systems

Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

We predict several effects associated with the optical response of systems prepared in a nonequilibrium state by impulsive optical excitations. The linear response depends on the p…

quant-ph2014

Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy with Entangled Light; Enhanced Resolution and Pathway Selection

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Frank Schlawin, Shaul Mukamel

We propose a novel femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) technique that combines entangled photons with interference detection to select matter pathways and enhance the…

physics.chem-ph2014★ 35 cited

Time-, Frequency-, and Wavevector-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction from Single Molecules

Kochise Bennett, Jason D. Biggs, Yu Zhang +2

Using a quantum electrodynamic framework, we calculate the off-resonant scattering of a broad-band X-ray pulse from a sample initially prepared in an arbitrary superposition of ele…

quant-ph2014★ 19 cited

Multidimensional spectroscopy with entangled light; loop vs ladder delay scanning protocols

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

Multidimensional optical signals are commonly recorded by varying the delays between time ordered pulses. These control the evolution of the density matrix and are described by lad…

physics.bio-ph2013

Noise-induced quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes with multiple energy transfer pathways

Dmitri V. Voronine, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Bin Cao +1

We theoretically investigate exciton relaxation dynamics in molecular aggregates based on model photosynthetic complexes under various conditions of incoherent excitation. We show…

physics.chem-ph2013★ 58 cited

Time-resolved broadband Raman spectroscopies; A unified six-wave-mixing representation

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Shaul Mukamel

Excited-state vibrational dynamics in molecules can be studied by an electronically off-resonant Raman process induced by a probe pulse with variable delay with respect to an actin…

quant-ph2013★ 6 cited

Collective resonances in ; a QED study

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Shaul Mukamel

We calculate the third order susceptibility of a pair of 2 level atoms which interact via the exchange of photons. QED corrections to second order in coupling to vacuum f…