Faster than a Cycle of Light

Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium

  • Datum: 11.11.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Rupert Huber
  • University of Regensburg, Germany
  • Ort: CFEL (Bldg. 99)
  • Raum: Seminar Room I-III, EG.076-080
  • Gastgeber: CFEL, CUI, DESY, European XFEL, HZG, MPSD, SFB 925, UHH
Faster than a Cycle of Light
Watching a single molecule move on its intrinsic time scale has been a dream of modern nanoscience. We show how a single oscillation cycle of phase-stable infrared pulses can accelerate and recollide electrons in solids. By combining this idea with sub-angstrom spatial resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopy we manage to control the ultrafast quantum motion of individual electrons in a single orbital of one molecule. Such elementary quantum processes allow us to record first slow-motion movies of individual vibrating molecules.
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