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Attosecond Control of Restoration of Electronic Structure Symmetry

Liu, ChunMei and Manz, Jörn and Ohmori, Kenji and Sommer, Christian and Takei, Nobuyuki and Tremblay, Jean Christophe and Zhang, Yichi – 2018

Laser pulses can break the electronic structure symmetry of atoms and molecules by preparing a superposition of states with different irreducible representations. Here, we discover the reverse process, symmetry restoration, by means of two circularly polarized laser pulses. The laser pulse for symmetry restoration is designed as a copy of the pulse for symmetry breaking. Symmetry restoration is achieved if the time delay is chosen such that the superposed states have the same phases at the temporal center. This condition must be satisfied with a precision of a few attoseconds. Numerical simulations are presented for the C6H6 molecule and 87Rb atom. The experimental feasibility of symmetry restoration is demonstrated by means of high-contrast time-dependent Ramsey interferometry of the 87Rb atom.

Title
Attosecond Control of Restoration of Electronic Structure Symmetry
Author
Liu, ChunMei and Manz, Jörn and Ohmori, Kenji and Sommer, Christian and Takei, Nobuyuki and Tremblay, Jean Christophe and Zhang, Yichi
Date
2018
Identifier
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.173201
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Citation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 2018, 121, 173201