Attosecond Molecular Physics - The next frontier

Andre D. Bandrauk

Université de Sherbrooke, Computational Chemistry & Molecular Photonics, Quebec, Canada

The recent announcement of the generation of an isolated single attosecond cycle pulse,a "spin-off" of strong-field physics, [1],opens the way to a new regime in ultrafast physics.We will illustrate from numerical solutions of the TDSE (Time Dependent Schroedinger Equation) attosecond electron response in Enhanced Ionization ,EI, of H2+ thus elucidating a recent experimental mystery in the Coulomb Explosion of this system [2], Carrier Envelope Phase,CEP, control of electron transfer in H3++, [3], where electron trajectories separated by a few hundreds of attoseconds interfere. Finally we will discuss the usefulness of photoelectron interferometry with broadbands inherent with attosecond pulses[4].

[1] G Sansone et al,Science,314,443(2006).
[2] A Staudte et al,Phys Rev Lett.98,073003(2007).
[3] A D Bandrauk et al, Phys Rev Lett 98,013001(2007).
[4] G L Yudin et al., Phys Rev Lett 96,063002(2006).

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