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Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics.

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Volume 74 gives an overview on the latest evolutions in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, specifically promoting two important aspects of the field of ultrafast optics and strong fields. In particular, the book consists of a review over high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yelin, Susanne
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Dimauro, Louis F., Perrin, Hélène
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2025.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Series Page
  • Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter One: Attosecond charge migration in organic molecules: Initiating and probing localized electron holes
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Early charge migration studies
  • 1.2 Reawakening through attosecond science
  • 1.3 Current developments
  • 1.4 Theory and simulations of charge migration
  • 2 Simulating charge migration with time-dependent density-functional theory
  • 2.1 Main equations
  • 2.2 Numerical simulations
  • 2.3 Visualizing and analyzing charge-migration dynamics
  • 2.4 Starting charge-migration dynamics
  • 3 Initiating and probing localized electron holes: An attochemistry picture of charge migration
  • 3.1 The case for localized electron holes
  • 3.2 Attochemistry of charge migration
  • 3.3 Nonlinear dynamics of charge migration
  • 3.4 Probing localized electron holes
  • 3.4.1 High-order harmonic spectroscopy of particle-like CM
  • 3.4.2 Time-resolved x-ray diffraction of CM
  • 4 Summary and outlook
  • 4.1 Outlook: Measuring charge migration
  • 4.2 Outlook: Charge-migration in its broader environment
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter Two: Strongly correlated excitons in moiré semiconductors
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Summary on properties of transition metal dichalcogenides
  • 2.1 Moiré bilayers
  • 2.2 Mathematical description of the electron-photon system
  • 2.2.1 Effective model: Zero-exciton subspace with doped charges
  • 2.2.2 Effective model: Single-exciton subspace without doped charges
  • 3 Moiré excitons coexisting with charge-ordered states of doped electrons
  • 3.1 Effective model: Single-exciton subspace with charge-ordered doped electrons
  • 3.2 Collective spectral properties of moiré excitons
  • 3.3 Topological excitonic properties
  • 3.4 Extracting band properties via optical reflectivity.
  • 4 Correlations between moiré excitons: The role of nonbosonic exciton statistics
  • 4.1 Formulation for non-bosonic statistics of moiré excitons
  • 4.2 Effective model: Multiple interacting excitons without doped charges
  • 4.3 Experimental signatures of non-bosonicity
  • 5 Moiré excitons coexisting with spin-ordered states of doped electrons
  • 5.1 Effective model: Single-exciton on top of half-filled doped holes
  • 5.1.1 Slave-fermion representation of the t-J model
  • 5.1.2 Mean field description for magnetic order
  • 5.1.3 Diagrammatic calculation for magnetic polaron
  • 5.1.4 Two-body bound state between a magnetic polaron and a free electron
  • 5.2 Experimental signatures for magnetically dressed moiré exciton
  • 6 Conclusion and outlook
  • 6.1 Summary
  • 6.2 Outlooks
  • Acknowledgment
  • Declaration of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
  • References
  • Chapter Three: Phase-space methods for many-body quantum optics
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Phase-space methods: Key concepts
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence
  • 2.3 Moyal product and quantum evolution in phase space
  • 2.4 Example: Bosonic system
  • 2.5 Truncated Wigner approximation for bosons
  • 3 Phase-space formulation for spins
  • 3.1 Phase space and kernel
  • 3.2 Mapping dynamics to phase space
  • 3.2.1 Moyal product
  • 3.2.2 Integration by parts
  • 3.3 Example: Ising model
  • 3.4 Truncated Wigner approximation for spins
  • 3.5 Discrete truncated Wigner approximation
  • 4 Phase-space methods for many-body quantum optics
  • 4.1 Spin model for many-body quantum optics
  • 4.2 Exact many-body open quantum dynamics in phase space
  • 4.3 Dissipative TWA
  • 4.4 Multi-time correlation functions
  • 4.5 Numerical examples and validity of the approximation
  • 4.5.1 Dicke superradiance in a cavity
  • 4.5.2 Coherent driving of a 1D atomic array in free space.
  • 5.4 Comparison between the platforms
  • 6 Experimental and numerical techniques for fluids of light
  • 6.1 Arbitrary state generation: SLM's and DMD's
  • 6.2 Potential engineering
  • 6.3 Off-axis interferometry: Phase measurement
  • 6.4 Velocity decomposition and kinetic energy spectrum
  • 6.5 Vortices and topological charge detection
  • 6.6 Static structure factor
  • 6.7 Analogue Bragg spectroscopy
  • 6.8 Effective time propagation
  • 6.9 Electronic feedback loop
  • 6.10 Modern tools for numerical simulations of the NLSE
  • 7 Recent experimental advances
  • 7.1 Hydrodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
  • 7.2 Superfluidity
  • 7.3 Out-of-equilibrium dynamics and quenches
  • 7.4 Photonic lattices and analogies with condensed matter systems
  • 8 Future directions and perspectives
  • 8.1 Two-component mixture
  • 8.1.1 Spin and density modes in the miscible regime
  • 8.1.2 Non-miscible regime and coarsening dynamics
  • 8.2 Nonlinear media with cold atoms
  • 8.3 Quantum effects and beyond mean-field
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributions of the authors
  • References
  • Back Cover.