Attosecond science and the tunnelling time problem

AS Landsman, U Keller - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The question of how long it takes a particle to tunnel through a potential barrier has been a
subject of intense theoretical debate for the last 80 years. In this decade of attosecond …

Attoclock revisited on electron tunnelling time

C Hofmann, AS Landsman, U Keller - Journal of Modern Optics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The last decade has seen an intense renewed debate on tunnelling time, both from a
theoretical and an experimental perspective. Here, we review recent developments and new …

Attosecond delays in X-ray molecular ionization

T Driver, M Mountney, J Wang, L Ortmann… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous but exhibits attosecond delays that can
reveal complex molecular dynamics,,,,,–. Sub-femtosecond-duration light pulses provide the …

Probing nonadiabatic effects in strong-field tunnel ionization

R Boge, C Cirelli, AS Landsman, S Heuser, A Ludwig… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We investigate experimentally the validity of proposed theories extending the tunneling
approximation towards the multiphoton regime in strong-field ionization of helium. We …

Tunneling time and weak measurement in strong field ionization

T Zimmermann, S Mishra, BR Doran, DF Gordon… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Tunneling delays represent a hotly debated topic, with many conflicting definitions and little
consensus on when and if such definitions accurately describe the physical observables …

Tunneling exit characteristics from classical backpropagation of an ionized electron wave packet

H Ni, U Saalmann, JM Rost - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We investigate tunneling ionization of a single active electron with a strong and short laser
pulse, circularly polarized. With the recently proposed backpropagation method, we can …

Tunneling criteria and a nonadiabatic term for strong-field ionization

H Ni, N Eicke, C Ruiz, J Cai, F Oppermann… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We investigate tunneling ionization of a model helium atom in a strong circularly polarized
short laser pulse using the classical backpropagation method and compare ten different …

Strong-field ionization of He by elliptically polarized light in attoclock configuration

IA Ivanov, AS Kheifets - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We perform time-dependent calculations of strong-field ionization of He by elliptically
polarized light in configuration of recent attoclock measurements of Boge [Phys. Rev. Lett …

Nonadiabatic effects in electronic and nuclear dynamics

MP Bircher, E Liberatore, NJ Browning, S Brickel… - Structural …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The terms adiabatic and nonadiabatic, respectively, are used in many different contexts.
Whereas in classical thermodynamics, adiabatic refers to processes that occur without any …

Quantum battles in attoscience: tunnelling

C Hofmann, A Bray, W Koch, H Ni… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
What is the nature of tunnelling? This yet unanswered question is as pertinent today as it
was at the dawn of quantum mechanics. This article presents a cross section of current …