Theory Groups

Brett Esry's Group

Brett's group studies ultracold three-body collisions and intense laser-matter interactions.

Brett has retired as the Chapin Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

• Using parametric theories to understand carrier-envelope phase and multi-color processes
  PhD dissertation of Dustin Ursrey.
• Native frames: An approach for separating sequential and concerted three-body fragmentation
  T. Severt, Jyoti Rajput, Ben Berry, Bethany Jochim, Peyman Feizollah, Balram Kaderiya, M. Zohrabi, Farzaneh Ziaee, Kanaka Raju P., D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, K. D. Carnes, B. D. Esry, I. Ben-Itzhak
  Phys. Rev. A 110, 053104 (2024)

Loren Greenman's Group

Loren's group describes the interaction of laser pulses with molecules, with the goal of designing "molecular movies".

• Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics
  Meng Han, Jia-Bao Ji, Alexander Blech, R. Esteban Goetz, Corbin Allison, Loren Greenman, Christiane P. Koch, Hans Jakob Wörner
  Nature 645, 95 (2025)
• Pump-probe spectroscopy of chiral vibrational dynamics
  Denis S. Tikhonov, Alexander Blech, Monika Leibscher, Loren Greenman, Melanie Schnell, Christiane P. Koch
  Science Advances 8, eade0311 (2022)

CD Lin's Group

CD's group studies attosecond physics; theory of dynamic chemical imaging; retrieval of atomic and molecular structures from laser-generated electron spectra and high-order harmonics; general laser-atom and laser-molecule interactions; and quantum chaos in helium atoms.

CD has retired as Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

• Characterization and application of isolated attosecond pulses
  PhD dissertation of Hui Wei.
• Rotation in attosecond vibronic coherence spectroscopy for molecules
  Chi-Hong Yuen, Chii-Dong Lin
  Commun. Phys. 7, 115 (2024)

Uwe Thumm's Group

Uwe's group is interested in modeling, theory, and numerical computation of interactions between electrons, ions, and intense laser light with atoms, molecules, clusters, and solid surfaces.

• Spatiotemporally resolved photoemission from plasmonic nanoparticles
  PhD dissertation of Jianxiong (Jason) Li.
• Dissociative ionization of CO2 in XUV pump and IR or visible probe pulses
  Van-Hung Hoang, Uwe Thumm
  Phys. Rev. A 109, 033117 (2024)