Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

The merging of coherent control (CC) and adiabatic passage (AP) and the type of problems
that can be solved using the resulting coherently controlled adiabatic passage (CCAP) …

Written by two of the world's leading researchers in the field, this is a systematic introduction
to the fundamental principles of coherent control, and to the underlying physics and …

The observation of coherent dynamics ensuing from the excitation of molecular systems by
femtosecond laser pulses is at the heart of femtochemistry. The time-dependent evolution of …

▪ Abstract There has been much progress in the control of chemical reactions since methods
of active control were first proposed by Brumer & Shapiro and by Tannor & Rice ten years …

We review the principles and some recent advances in the theory of coherent control of
molecular processes and discuss some of its experimental realizations. Amongst the topics …

Two-color (800 and 400 nm) short (45 fs) linearly polarized pulses are used to ionize and
dissociate D 2 into a neutral deuterium atom and a deuteron. The yields and energies of the …

We show that quantum systems with broken symmetry can be selectively excited due to the
coexistence of one-and two-photon transitions between the same states. Discrimination …

Temporal coherent control of an excited state wave packet is produced by a sequence of two
identical ultrashort laser pulses. We show theoretically and experimentally in the case of the …

A coherent control scheme is proposed for the orientation of heteronuclear molecules by two-
color phase-locked laser excitation. In the case of hexapole state-selected NO, a …