Controlling Floquet states on ultrashort time scales.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Nov 2022
Historique:
received: 06 05 2022
accepted: 14 11 2022
pubmed: 20 11 2022
medline: 20 11 2022
entrez: 19 11 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The advent of ultrafast laser science offers the unique opportunity to combine Floquet engineering with extreme time resolution, further pushing the optical control of matter into the petahertz domain. However, what is the shortest driving pulse for which Floquet states can be realised remains an unsolved matter, thus limiting the application of Floquet theory to pulses composed by many optical cycles. Here we ionized Ne atoms with few-femtosecond pulses of selected time duration and show that a Floquet state can be observed already with a driving field that lasts for only 10 cycles. For shorter pulses, down to 2 cycles, the finite lifetime of the driven state can still be explained using an analytical model based on Floquet theory. By demonstrating that the amplitude and number of Floquet-like sidebands in the photoelectron spectrum can be controlled not only with the driving laser pulse intensity and frequency, but also by its duration, our results add a new lever to the toolbox of Floquet engineering.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36402766
doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34973-4
pii: 10.1038/s41467-022-34973-4
pmc: PMC9675778
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

7103

Subventions

Organisme : EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020)
ID : 848411
Organisme : Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, University and Research)
ID : 2017RKWTMY
Organisme : Fondazione Cariplo (Cariplo Foundation)
ID : 2020-4380
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : AdG-694097
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 848411

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Matteo Lucchini (M)

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy. matteo.lucchini@polimi.it.
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy. matteo.lucchini@polimi.it.

Fabio Medeghini (F)

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy.

Yingxuan Wu (Y)

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy.
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy.

Federico Vismarra (F)

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy.
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy.

Rocío Borrego-Varillas (R)

Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy.

Aurora Crego (A)

Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy.

Fabio Frassetto (F)

Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 35131, Padova, Italy.

Luca Poletto (L)

Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 35131, Padova, Italy.

Shunsuke A Sato (SA)

Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8577, Japan.
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761, Hamburg, Germany.

Hannes Hübener (H)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761, Hamburg, Germany.

Umberto De Giovannini (U)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761, Hamburg, Germany.
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica-Emilio Segrè, I-90123, Palermo, Italy.

Ángel Rubio (Á)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761, Hamburg, Germany.
Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), The Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, 10010, USA.

Mauro Nisoli (M)

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Milano, Italy.
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 20133, Milano, Italy.

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