Atomic Physics - research overview

Recent research highlights:

Imaging collective quantum fluctuations of the structure of a complex molecule
Free download: Science 389, 650-654 (2025)

Direct observation of ultrafast symmetry reduction during internal conversion of 2-thiouracil using Coulomb explosion imaging
Nature Communications 16, 2074 (2025)

Imaging the Rovibrational Ground State of the Helium−Neon Dimers ⁴He²⁰Ne and ⁴He²²Ne
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 16, 3225-3231 (2025)

Role of the Coulomb Potential in Compton Scattering
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183002 (2024)

Enantioselective One-Photon Excitation of Formic Acid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 093002 (2024)

Role of the Binding Energy on Nondipole Effects in Single-Photon Ionization
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233002 (2024)

Ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac effect
Science Vol 383, Issue 6690, pp. 1467-1470 (2024)

Coulomb explosion imaging of small molecules using an X-ray free-electron laser
Nat. Phys. 18, 423-428 (2022)

Nonadiabatic Strong Field Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127,273201 (2021)

Inner-Shell-Ionization-Induced Femtosecond Structural Dynamics of Water Molecules Imaged at an X-ray Free-Electron Laser
Phys. Rev. X 11, 041044 (2021)

Measuring the photoelectron emission delay in the molecular frame
Nat. Commun. 12, 6657 (2021)

Strong Differential Photoion Circular Dichroism in Strong-Field Ionization of Chiral Molecules
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2021)

Ultrafast manipulation of the weakly bound helium dimer
Nat. Phys. 17, 174–178 (2021)

Zeptosecond Birth Time Delay in Molecular Photoionization
Science 370, 339-341 (2020)

Photoelectron Diffraction Imaging of a Molecular Breakup Using an X-ray Free-Electron Laser
Phys. Rev. X 10, 021052 (2020)

Observation of Photoion Backward Emission in Photoionization of He and N₂
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2020)

He Compton 2.1 keV
Nature Physics (2020)

Magnetic fields alter strong-field ionization
Nature Physics (2019)

Enantioselective fragmentation of an achiral molecule in a strong laser field
Sci. Adv. 5,eaau7923 (2019).

Direct Experimental Access to the Nonadiabatic Initial Momentum Offset upon Tunnel Ionization
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163202 (2018)

Ultrafast Preparation and Detection of Ring Currents in Single Atoms
Nature Physics (2018)

Spin and Angular Momentum in Strong-Field Ionization
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043202 (2018)

Imaging the square of the correlated two-electron wave function of a hydrogen molecule
Nature Communications 8: 2266 (2017)

Observation of Enhanced Chiral Asymmetries in the Inner-Shell Photoionization of Uniaxially Oriented Methyloxirane Enantiomers
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 2780 (2017)

Imaging the He₂ quantum halo state using a free electron laser
PNAS 113, 51 (2016)

Electron spin polarization in strong-field ionization of Xenon atoms
Nature Photonics 10, 526-528 (2016)

H₂ single ionization - Broken Symmetry
Physical Review Letter (2016)

Streaking Temporal Double-Slit Interference by an Orthogonal Two-Color Laser Field
PRL 114, 143001 (2015)

Observation of the Efimov state of the helium trimer
Science 348, 551 (2015)