Attochemistry, Entanglement, and Nonlinear X-ray Probes of Chemical Physics I

Presentations

• Dephasing in attosecond science and the collective nature of structural quantum fluctuations

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn6059
  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu2637

  Presenters

  • Robin Santra

    • DESY and University of Hamburg

  Authors

  • Robin Santra

    • DESY and University of Hamburg

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• Strong-field-induced tunnel ionization of multiple electrons in polyatomic molecules

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: S. A. Mohideen, A. J. Howard, C. Cheng, I. Gabalski, A. M. Ghrist, E. Weckwerth, and P. H. Bucksbaum, Orientation-dependent enhanced ionization in acetylene revealed by ultrafast cross-polarized pulse pairs, Phys. Rev. A 112, 013105 (2025).
  
  A. J. Howard, M. Britton, Z. L. Streeter, C. Cheng, R. R. Lucchese, C. W. McCurdy, and P. H. Bucksbaum, Isotope-selective strong-field ionization of semiheavy water, Phys. Rev. Res. 7, L012062 (2025).
  
  C. Cheng, L. J. Frasinski, G. Moğol, F. Allum, A. J. Howard, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. Forbes, and T. Weinacht, Multiparticle cumulant mapping for Coulomb explosion imaging: Calculations and algorithm, Phys. Rev. A 109, 042802 (2024).
  
  I. Gabalski et al., Imaging Valence Electron Rearrangement in a Chemical Reaction Using Hard X-Ray Scattering, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 083001 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Philip Bucksbaum

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Philip Bucksbaum

    • Stanford University

  • Ian Gabalski

    • UC Davis

  • Chuan Cheng

    • Stanford University

  • Eleanor Weckwerth

    • Stanford University

  • Haoran Ma

    • Stanford University

  • Aaron Ghrist

    • Stanford University

  • Salma Mohideen

    • Stanford University

  • Andrew Howard

    • Stanford University

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• Novel X-ray probes of molecular chirality

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Jérémy Rouxel

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Jérémy Rouxel

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Towards Measuring Attochemical Processes in Condensed Phase Neutral Species

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • James Gaynor

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • James Gaynor

    • Northwestern University

  • Sarah Mersch

  • Gerrit Christenson

    • Northwestern University

  • Jacob Higgins

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• Orbital-Level Signatures of Electron and Proton Motion Revealed by Ultrafast X-ray Absorption and Scattering

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03693

  Presenters

  • Abdullah Kahraman

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • Abdullah Kahraman

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Elisa Biasin

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

  • Niri Govind

  • Christopher Larsen

  • Michael Sachs

  • Kristjan Kunnus

  • Tim van Driel

  • Robert Schoenlein

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Revisiting the Modern Theory of Electric Polarization via a Density-Based Approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Andrew Li

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Authors

  • Andrew Li

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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• Elucidating Many-Body Effects in Molecular Core Spectra through Real-Time Approaches: Efficient Classical Approximations and a Quantum Perspective

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Vibin Abraham

    • Pacific Northwest National Lab

  Authors

  • Vibin Abraham

    • Pacific Northwest National Lab

  • Bo Peng

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

  • Priyabrata Senapati

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• Ultrafast Electron Dynamics of Plasmonic Light Harvesting Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Oliver Gessner

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Oliver Gessner

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zachery Donnellan

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Carlos Mora Perez

  • Kin Fung Lai

  • Marieke Stapf

  • Dmitrii Potorochin

  • Yvonne Joseph

  • Lukas Wenthaus

  • Wolfgang Eberhardt

  • Serguei Molodtsov

  • Friedrich Roth

  • Jin Qian

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