Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
9-22-2016
Citation
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 94, 030702(R) (2016)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.030702
Abstract
We propose the use of ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to image a controllable, laser-driven coherent electron population transfer in lithium atoms with currently available femtosecond electron pulses. Our simulations demonstrate the ability of ultrafast electrons to image such an electronic population transfer, thus validating UED as a direct means of investigating electron dynamics. Provided the incident electron pulses have sufficient temporal resolution, the diffraction images are shown to resolve also the relative phases of the target electronic wave functions.
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