Quantum Control of Photoelectron Circular Dichroism.

Phys Rev Lett

Department of Physics, Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, 1228 North 17th Street, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601, USA.

Published: January 2019

We demonstrate coherent control over the photoelectron circular dichroism in randomly oriented chiral molecules, based on quantum interference between multiple photoionization pathways. To significantly enhance the chiral signature, we use a finite manifold of indistinguishable (1+1^{'}) resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization pathways interfering at a common photoelectron energy but probing different intermediate states. We show that this coherent control mechanism maximizes the number of molecular states that constructively contribute to the dichroism at an optimal photoelectron energy and thus outperforms other schemes, including interference between opposite-parity pathways driven by bichromatic (ω, 2ω) fields as well as sequential pump-probe ionization.

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