Since the beginning of the twentieth century, confinement of atoms, molecules and plasma inside impenetrable sharp (hard) and smooth (soft) cavities has been studied with utmost interest. Physically, such situations introduce the trapping of a quantum …
Imaging the microscopic world in real space and real time is a grand challenge of science. In the landscape of time-resolved imaging techniques, laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) has recently shown to be a promising candidate to push the fronti…
A theoretical study of the dipole photoelectron angular distribution asymmetry parameter, β, of the 6s, 5s and 4s subshells has been conducted for a range of closed-shell heavy, Hg (Z = 80), Rn (Z = 86), Ra (Z = 88) and superheavy, No (Z = 102), Cn (Z …
During the high-harmonic generation (HHG) process, information about field interaction with the medium is imprinted in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation. Here, we present a method for using HHG to diagnose the electric field of an optical pulse u…
Spin-polarized atomic ensembles probed by light based on the Faraday interaction are a versatile platform for numerous applications in quantum metrology and quantum information processing. Here we consider an ensemble of Alkali atoms that are continuou…
In order to perfect the use of iodine, instead of xenon, in plasma thrusters, an experiment has been set up to investigate the feasibility of two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence (TALIF) diagnostics in iodine plasmas. Levels and of atomic…
Efficient initialization and manipulation of quantum states is important for numerous applications and it usually requires the ability to perform high fidelity and robust swapping of the populations of quantum states. Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage…
We propose a legitimate and easily computable nonclassicality indicator for the states of the electromagnetic field based on the standard deviation in the measurement of the homodyne rotated quadrature operator. The proposed nonclassicality indicator i…
We measured the angular distribution of the subsequently emitted Lyman-α1 transition of Xe53+* ions following nonradiative electron capture in collisions of 197 MeV u−1 Xe54+ projectiles with gaseous krypton target. The alignment of the projectile 2p3/…
We present an experimental study of the Rydberg - and - series of ytterbium for principal quantum numbers in the range of n = 70–90. The study is performed using trap loss spectroscopy in a magneto-optical trap operating on the transition at 399 nm….