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

Presentations

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

  ORAL · 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

  ORAL · 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 Howard Bucksbaum

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Philip Howard Bucksbaum

    • Stanford University

  • Ian Gabalski

    • Stanford University

  • Chuan Cheng

    • Stanford University

  • Eleanor Weckwerth

    • Stanford University

  • Haoran Ma

    • Stanford University

  • Aaron M Ghrist

    • Stanford University

  • Salma Aziza Mohideen

    • Stanford University

  • Andrew J Howard

    • Stanford University

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• Novel X-ray probes of molecular chirality

  ORAL · Invited

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

  Presenters

  • Jérémy R Rouxel

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Jérémy R Rouxel

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Towards Measuring Attochemical Processes in Condensed Phase Neutral Species

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • James Daniel Gaynor

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • James Daniel Gaynor

    • Northwestern University

  • Sarah A Mersch

    • Northwestern University

  • Gerrit Norris Christenson

    • Northwestern University

  • Jacob Higgins

    • Northwestern University

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

  ORAL

  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

    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
    • PNNL

  • Christopher Larsen

    • University of Auckland

  • Michael Sachs

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • SLAC

  • Kristjan Kunnus

    • LCLS-SLAC

  • Tim van Driel

    • LCLS-SLAC

  • Robert William Schoenlein

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Andrew B Li

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Authors

  • Andrew B 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

  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

    • Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA, Physical and Computational Science Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland,

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

  ORAL

  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

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kin Fung Lai

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Marieke Stapf

    • TU Bergakademie Freiberg

  • Dmitrii Potorochin

    • TU Bergakademie Freiberg; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

  • Yvonne Joseph

    • TU Bergakademie Freiberg

  • Lukas Wenthaus

    • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

  • Wolfgang Eberhardt

    • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

  • Serguei Molodtsov

    • TU Bergakademie Freiberg; European XFEL GmbH

  • Friedrich Roth

    • TU Bergakademie Freiberg

  • Jin Qian

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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