AMO Special Seminar

Ultrafast electron dynamics in ionization of atoms, molecules and nanostructures

When:

February 29, 2016

Time:

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location:

PHYS 242

Speaker:

Alexandra Landsman
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Details:

Attosecond science uses ultrafast flashes of light to capture and control electron dynamics inside matter.  However, it is not always easy to interpret experimental observables and use them to reconstruct physically meaningful events.  Additional challenges arise as the field enters new experimental regimes, with plasmonics and development of new attosecond and x-ray laser sources being notable examples.  Here we illustrate how improved analysis and numerical simulation can be used to understand current experiments and to gain insight into fundamental processes in light-matter interaction, such as tunneling, rescattering, long-range Coulomb effects, creation of Rydberg states and ionization delays.