SFB 652: Strong Correlations and Collective Effects in Radiation Fields: Coulomb Systems, Clusters and Particles
Final Report Abstract
The interaction of light and matter is a vital ingredient in our understanding of the phenomena that occur in the world that surrounds us. After all, life itself is based on light-harvesting molecular complexes. The past decades have witnessed impressive progress in the decoding of important aspects of the complex interaction of particles and fields in the microscopic world of atoms and molecules as well as the uncovering of correlations in the radiation field without which there would only exist non-interacting, effective single-particle physics. Without correlations, there would be no couplings, no structure, no life. Due to rapid technological advances in the development of powerful radiation sources, processes can be observed on atomic length scales of 10-10 meters and followed on ultrashort time scales of 10-15 seconds. Indeed, some essential innovations in physics have only been made possible by the development of novel light sources. Femtosecond lasers, for instance, are the prerequisite for the observation of ultrafast phenomena as well as the investigation of physics at high field strengths. With their intense x-ray pulses, free-electron lasers allow for unprecedented insights into the structure of complex molecules and aggregates as well as into inner atomic processes and their dynamics. As typical case studies for interacting Coulomb systems, the CRC 652 investigated atoms, molecules, clusters, droplets, nanoparticles, molecular aggregates and plasmas using experimental and theoretical methods within an integrated research approach. The behavior of electrons and ions as well as quasiparticles generated by excitations is either often highly correlated, or there is a collectively enhanced response of the system to the external radiation field such as in condensates in which all particles occupy the same quantum state. The central goals of the CRC were to uncover such effects and correlations, to utilize them for the investigations of the system, and to steer them using the radiation field. For this purpose, novel experimental techniques such as active pulse shaping or x-ray Thomson scattering have been employed, the quantum properties of the light field have been characterized and experimentally detected, the methodological spectrum of many-body theory has been enlarged and novel simulation techniques have been implemented. Cluster, as the smallest particles that consist of a well-defined number of atoms, have served as nanoscale laboratories for the study of matter in extreme light fields. By scattering of short-wavelength radiation, single clusters could be „photographed“ using only single shots. Warm dense matter, as it occurs deep inside large planets, has been investigated as a prime example of a strongly correlated Coulomb system. Excitons are created by absorption of light in crystals or molecular systems; their behavior influences the function of optoelectronic devices. Mesoscopic quantum objects such as micrometer-sized Rydberg excitons have been experimentally observed and described theoretically. The transport of excitons through molecular aggregates has been measured and simulated. The research programme has been carried out cross-project in close cooperation between experiment and theory. Due to numerous collaborations, publications and conferences organized by its members, the CRC has been strongly visible internationally and has enormously contributed to the profile of Rostock as a location for science.
Publications
- Observations of Plasmons in Warm Dense Matter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 065002 (2007)
S. H. Glenzer, O. L. Landen, P. Neumayer, R. W. Lee, K. Widmann, S. W. Pollaine, R. J. Wallace, G. Gregori, A. Höll, T. Bornath, R. Thiele, V. Schwarz, W.-D. Kraeft, R. Redmer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.065002) - Multistep Ionization of Argon Clusters in Intense Femtosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133401 (2008)
C. Bostedt, H. Thomas, M. Hoener, E. Eremina, T. Fennel, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, H. Wabnitz, M. Kuhlmann, E. Plönjes, K. Tiedtke, R. Treusch, J. Feldhaus, A. R. B. de Castro, T. Möller
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.133401) - Core-Hole Screening as a Probe for a Metal-to-Nonmetal Transition in Lead Clusters. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138303 (2009)
V. Senz, T. Fischer, P. Oelßner, J. Tiggesbäumker, J. Stanzel, C. Bostedt, H. Thomas, M. Schöffler, L. Foucar, M. Martins, J. Neville, M. Neeb, T. Möller, W. Wurth, E. Rühl, R. Dörner, H. Schmidt-Böcking, W. Eberhardt, G. Ganteför, R. Treusch, P. Radcliffe, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.138303) - Turning solid aluminium transparent by intense soft X-ray photoionization. Nat. Phys. 5, 693 (2009)
B. Nagler, U. Zastrau, R. R. Fäustlin, S. M. Vinko, T. Whitcher, A. J. Nelson, R. Sobierajski, J. Krzywinski, J. Chalupsky, E. Abreu, Sasa Bajt, T. Bornath, T. Burian, H. Chapman, J. Cihelka, T. Döppner, S. Düsterer, T. Dzelzainis, M. Fajardo, E. Förster, C. Fortmann, E. Galtier, S. H. Glenzer, S. Göde, G. Gregori, V. Hajkova, P. Heimann, L. Juha, M. Jurek, F. Y. Khattak, A. R. Khorsand, D. Klinger, M. Kozlova, T. Laarmann, , H. J. Lee, R. W. Lee, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, P. Mercere, W. J. Murphy, A. Przystawik, R. Redmer, H. Reinholz, D. Riley, G. Röpke, F. Rosmej, K. Saksl, R. Schott, R. Thiele, J. Tiggesbäumker, S. Toleikis, , T. Tschentscher, I. Uschmann, H. J. Vollmer, J. S. Wark
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys1341) - X-ray Thomson scattering in high energy density plasmas. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1625 (2009)
S. H. Glenzer, R. Redmer
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1625) - Laser-driven nonlinear cluster dynamics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 1793 (2010)
T. Fennel, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, J. Tiggesbäumker, P.-G. Reinhard, P. M. Dinh, E. Suraud
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1793) - Steplike intensity threshold behavior of extreme ionization in laser-driven Xe clusters. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053401 (2010)
T. Döppner, J. P. Müller, A. Przystawik, S. Göde, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, C. Varin, L. Ramunno, T. Brabec, T. Fennel
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.053401) - Controlled near-field enhanced electron acceleration from dielectric nanospheres with intense fewcycle laser fields. Nat. Phys. 7, 656 (2011)
S. Zherebtsov, T. Fennel, J. Plenge, E. Antonsson, I. Znakovskaya, A. Wirth, O. Herrwerth, F. Süßmann, C. Peltz, I. Ahmad, S. A. Trushin, V. Pervak, S. Karsch, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Langer, C. Graf, M. I. Stockman, F. Krausz, E. Rühl, M. F. Kling
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys1983) - Time-resolved holography with photoelectron waves. Science 331, 61 (2011)
Y. Huismans, A. Rouzée, A. Gijsbertsen, J. H. Jungmann, A. S. Smolkowska, P. S. W. M. Logman, F. Lépine, C. Cauchy, S. Zamith, T. Marchenko, J. M. Bakker, G. Berden, B. Redlich, A. F. G. van der Meer, H. G. Muller, W. Vermin, K. J. Schafer, M. Spanner, M. Yu. Ivanov, O. Smirnova, D. Bauer, S. V. Popruzhenko, M. J. J. Vrakking
(See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1198450) - Biphasic Self-Assembly Pathways and Size-Dependent Photophysical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dye Aggregates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 18722 (2013)
F. Fennel, S. Wolter, Z. Xie, P.-A. Plötz, O. Kühn, F. Würthner, S. Lochbrunner
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/ja409597x) - Multipartite Entanglement Witnesses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110503 (2013)
J. Sperling, W. Vogel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.110503) - Plasma-Formation Dynamics in Intense Laser-Droplet Interaction. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 145003 (2013)
T. V. Liseykina, D. Bauer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.145003) - Exact equations of motion for natural orbitals of strongly driven two-electron systems. Phys. Rev. A 90, 012518 (2014)
J. Rapp, M. Brics, D. Bauer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.012518) - Giant Rydberg excitons in the copper oxide Cu2O. Nature 514, 343-347 (2014)
T. Kazimierczuk, D. Fröhlich, S. Scheel, H. Stolz, M. Bayer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13832) - Order, criticality, and excitations in the extended Falicov-Kimball model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 026401 (2014)
S. Ejima, T. Kaneko, Y. Ohta, and H. Fehske
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.026401) - Resolving Ultrafast Heating of Dense Cryogenic Hydrogen. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 105002 (2014)
U. Zastrau, P. Sperling, M. Harmand, A. Becker, T. Bornath, R. Bredow, S. Dziarzhytski, T. Fennel, L. B. Fletcher, E. Förster, S. Göde, G. Gregori, V. Hilbert, D. Hochhaus, B. Holst, T. Laarmann, H. J. Lee, T. Ma, J. P. Mithen, R. Mitzner, C. D. Murphy, M. Nakatsutsumi, P. Neumayer, A. Przystawik, S. Roling, M. Schulz, B. Siemer, S. Skruszewicz, J. Tiggesbäumker, S. Toleikis, T. Tschentscher, T. White, M. Wöstmann, H. Zacharias, T. Döppner, S. H. Glenzer, R. Redmer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.105002) - Time-resolved x-ray imaging of anisotropic nanoplasma expansion. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133401 (2014)
C. Peltz, C. Varin, T. Brabec, T. Fennel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.133401) - Applicability of the Caldeira–Leggett Model to Vibrational Spectroscopy in Solution. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 2722 (2015)
F. Gottwald, S. D. Ivanov, O. Kühn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00718) - Direct observation of an abrupt insulator-to-metal transition in dense liquid deuterium. Science 348, 1455 (2015)
M. D. Knudson, M. P. Desjarlais, A. Becker, R. W. Lemke, K. R. Cochrane, M. E. Savage, D. E. Bliss, T. R. Mattsson, R. Redmer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7471) - Exciton-Vibrational Coupling in the Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Frenkel Excitons in Molecular Aggregates. Phys. Rep. 567, 1 (2015)
M. Schröter, S.D. Ivanov, J.Schulze, S.P. Polyutov, Y. Yan, T.Pullerits, O.Kühn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2014.12.001) - Field propagation induced directionality of carrier-envelope phase controlled photoemission from nanospheres. Nat. Commun. 6, 7944 (2015)
F. Süßmann, L. Seiffert, S. Zherebtsov, V. Mondes, J. Stierle, M. Arbeiter, J. Plenge, P. Rupp, C. Peltz, A. Kessel, S. A. Trushin, B. Ahn, D. Kim, C. Graf, E. Rühl, M. F. Kling, T. Fennel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8944) - Free-Electron X-Ray Laser Measurements of Collisional-Damped Plasmons in Isochorically Heated Warm Dense Matter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115001 (2015)
P. Sperling, E. J. Gamboa, H. J. Lee, H. K. Chung, E. Galtier, Y. Omarbakiyeva, H. Reinholz, G. Röpke, U. Zastrau, J. Hastings, L. B. Fletcher, S. H. Glenzer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.115001) - Full Multipartite Entanglement of Frequency-Comb Gaussian States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050501 (2015)
S. Gerke, J. Sperling, W. Vogel, Y. Cai, J. Roslund, N. Treps, C. Fabre
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.050501) - Observation of correlated electronic decay in expanding clusters triggered by intense near-infrared fields. Nat. Commun. 6, 8596 (2015)
B. Schütte, M. Arbeiter, T. Fennel, G. Jabbari, A. I. Kuleff, M. J. J. Vrakking, A. Rouzée
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9596) - The 3D-architecture of individual free silver nanoparticles captured by X-ray scattering. Nat. Commun. 6, 6187 (2015)
I. Barke, H. Hartmann, D. Rupp, L. Flückiger, M. Sauppe, M. Adolph, S. Schorb, C. Bostedt, R. Treusch, C. Peltz, S. Bartling, T. Fennel, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, T. Möller
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7187) - Two-Color Strong-Field Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Phase of the Phase. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043001 (2015)
S. Skruszewicz, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, M. Arbeiter, T. Fennel, D. Bauer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.043001) - Uncovering Quantum Correlations with Time-Multiplexed Click Detection. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 023601 (2015)
J. Sperling, M. Bohmann, W. Vogel, G. Harder, B. Brecht, V. Ansari, C. Silberhorn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.023601) - Vibrational Dephasing in Ionic Liquids as a Signature of Hydrogen Bonding. ChemPhysChem 16, 2519 (2015)
S. Chatzipapadopoulos, T. Zentel, R. Ludwig, M. Lütgens, S. Lochbrunner, O. Kühn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201500433) - Biphasic aggregation of a perylene bisimide dye identified by exciton-vibrational spectra. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 25110 (2016)
P.-A. Plötz, S. P. Polyutov, S. D. Ivanov, F. Fennel, S. Wolter, T. Niehaus, Z. Xie, S. Lochbrunner, F. Würthner, O. Kühn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp04898f) - Ionization avalanching in clusters ignited by extreme-ultraviolet driven seed electrons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033001 (2016)
B. Schütte, M. Arbeiter, A. Mermillod-Blondin, M. J. J. Vrakking, A. Rouzée, T. Fennel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.033001) - Laser-driven recollisions under the Coulomb barrier. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243003 (2016)
T. Keil, S. V. Popruzhenko, D. Bauer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.243003) - Mapping Long-Lived Dark States in Copper Porphyrin Nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 16977 (2016)
H. Hartmann, I. Barke, A. Friedrich, P.-A. Plötz, O. S. Bokareva, M. Bahrami, K. Oldenburg, J. A. A. W. Elemans, R. Irsig, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, O. Kühn, S. Lochbrunner, S. Speller
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01279) - Signatures of quantum coherences in Rydberg excitons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133003 (2016)
P. Grünwald, M. Aßmann, J. Heckötter, D. Fröhlich, M. Bayer, H. Stolz, S. Scheel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.133003) - X-ray scattering measurements of dissociation-induced metallization of dynamically compressed deuterium. Nat. Commun. 7, 11189 (2016)
P. Davis, T. Döppner, J. R. Rygg, C. Fortmann, L. Divol, A. Pak, L. Fletcher, A. Becker, B. Holst, P. Sperling, R. Redmer, M. P. Desjarlais, P. Celliers, G. W. Collins, O. L. Landen, R. W. Falcone, S. H. Glenzer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11189) - Anomalous Quantum Correlations of Squeezed Light. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153601 (2017)
B. Kühn, W. Vogel, M. Mraz, S. Köhnke, B. Hage
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.153601) - Attosecond chronoscopy of electron scattering in dielectric nanoparticles. Nat. Phys. 13, 766 (2017)
L. Seiffert, Q. Liu, S. Zherebtsov , A. Trabattoni, P. Rupp, M. C. Castrovilli, M. Galli, F. Süßmann, K. Wintersperger, J. Stierle, G. Sansone, L. Poletto, F. Frassetto, I. Halfpap, V. Mondes, C. Graf, E. Rühl, F. Krausz, M. Nisoli, T. Fennel, F. Calegari, M. F. Kling
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS4129) - Coherent diffractive imaging of single helium nanodroplets with a high harmonic generation source. Nat. Commun. 8, 493 (2017)
D. Rupp, N. Monserud, B. Langbehn, M. Sauppe, J. Zimmermann, Y. Ovcharenko, T. Möller, F. Frassetto, L. Poletto, A. Trabattoni, F. Calegari, M. Nisoli, K. Sander, C. Peltz, M. J. J. Vrakking, T. Fennel, A. Rouzee
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00287-z) - Efficient laser-driven proton acceleration from cylindrical and planar cryogenic hydrogen jets. Sci. Rep. 7, 10248 (2017)
L. Obst, S. Göde, M. Rehwald, F.-E. Brack, J. Branco, S. Bock, M. Bussmann, T. E Cowan, C. B. Curry, F. Fiuza, M. Gauthier, R. Gebhardt, U. Helbig, A. Huebl, U. Hübner, A. Irman, L. Kazak, J. B. Kim, T. Kluge, S. Kraft, M. Loeser, J. Metzkes, R. Mishra, Ch. Rödel, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, M.Siebold, J. Tiggesbäumker, St. Wolter, T. Ziegler, U. Schramm, S. Glenzer, K. Zeil
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10589-3) - Large Stokes Shift Ionic Liquid Dye. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 8564 (2017)
S. Schmode, A. Petrosyan, F. Fennel, A. Villinger, S. Lochbrunner, R. Ludwig
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703832) - Nanoplasmonic electron acceleration by attosecond-controlled forward rescattering in silver clusters. Nature Communications volume 8, Article number: 1181 (2017)
J. Passig, S. Zherebtsov, R. Irsig, M. Arbeiter, C. Peltz, S. Göde, S. Skruszewicz, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, J. Tiggesbäumker, M.F. Kling, T. Fennel
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01286-w)
