Goals
- Explore opportunities offered by ubiquitous nature of sub-laser cycle response to strong IR fields for shaping, controlling and imaging quantum matter.
- Understand the link between topological and chiral dynamical phenomena.
- Create new concepts for shaping, controlling, and imaging of “oriented” media: media with orbital momentum, spin, handedness.
- See viewpoint by Olga Smirnova in Nature Reviews Physics
Also do not forget to check out Our Research Directions, Selected Publications and preprints
Scientific highlights
Synthetic chiral light [you can read the paper HERE, and see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, listen to an interview in Forschung Aktuell 7, find the article here ].
Spying on topology [you can read the paper HERE, and also see 1, 2, find the article here].
- Freeing electrons to better trap them [see 1, 2, 3].
- From insulator to conductor in a flash [you can read the paper HERE, and also see 1, 2].
- A spinning top of light [you can read the paper HERE, and also see 1, 2].
- C'mon electrons, let's do the twist! Twisting electrons can tell right-handed and left-handed molecules apart [you can read the paper HERE, also see see 1, 2].
- Ultrafast preparation and detection of ring currents in single atoms [you can read the paper HERE, and see 1].
- Spin polarization by strong field ionization [see 1, 2].
- Probing molecular chirality on a sub-femtosecond timescale [see 1,2,3].
- Ascertaining tunneling time [see 1,2,3].
Prizes
Andrés Ordoñez received the Best Poster Award at the GRC Quantum Control of Light and Matter 2019.
Software repository
Please find here the software repository of the Theory Department where we upload some of our tools.