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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Controlling electronic quantum motion on subcycle and atomic scales

F. Langer, S. Schlauderer, C. P. Schmid, C. Lange, Dominik Peller, Tyler L. Cocker, Jascha Repp, J. T. Steiner, Ulrich Huttner, P. G. Hawkins, S. W. Koch, M. Kira, R. Huber

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Atomically strong multi-terahertz waves drive novel subcycle quantum motions of electrons, generating high-harmonics, dynamical Bloch oscillations, quasiparticle collisions etc. Lightwave-driven scanning tunneling microscopy allows us to take the first femtosecond movie of a single-molecule orbital.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm3f.1

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