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arxiv: 1809.04543 · v2 · pith:S3NMFRFMnew · submitted 2018-09-12 · 🪐 quant-ph · physics.atom-ph

Quantum control of photoelectron circular dichroism

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keywords photoelectroncontroldichroismpathwayschiralcircularcoherentenergy
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We demonstrate coherent control over the photoelectron circular dichroism in randomly oriented chiral molecules, based on quantum interference between multiple photoionization pathways. To significantly enhance the chiral signature, we use a finite manifold of indistinguishable $(1+1^\prime)$ REMPI pathways interfering at a common photoelectron energy but probing different intermediate states. We show that this coherent control mechanism maximizes the number of molecular states that constructively contribute to the dichroism at an optimal photoelectron energy and thus outperforms other schemes, including interference between opposite-parity pathways driven by bichromatic $({\omega}, 2{\omega})$ fields as well as sequential pump-probe ionization.

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