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Opportunities for gas-phase science at short-wavelength free-electron lasers with undulator-based polarization control

Markus Ilchen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Enrico Allaria 6
, 
Primož Rebernik Ribič 6
, 
Heinz-Dieter Nuhn 7
, 
Alberto Lutman 7
, 
Evgeny Schneidmiller 3
, 
Markus Tischer 3
, 
Mikail Yurkov 3
, 
Marco Calvi 8
, 
Eduard Prat 8
, 
SVEN REICHE 8
, 
Thomas Schmidt 8
, 
Gianluca Aldo Geloni 5
, 
Suren Karabekyan 5
, 
Jiawei Yan 5
, 
Svitozar Serkez 5
, 
Zhangfeng Gao 9
, 
Bangjie Deng 10, 11
, 
Chao Feng 9, 11
, 
Haixiao Deng 9, 11
, 
Wolfram Helml 12
, 
Lars Funke 12
, 
Mats Larsson 13
, 
Vitali Zhaunerchyk 14
, 
Michael Meyer 5
, 
Tommaso Mazza 5
, 
Till Jahnke 5, 15
, 
Reinhard Dörner 16, 17
, 
Francesca Calegari 1, 2, 3, 4
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Olga Smirnova 18, 19, 20, 21
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Caterina Vozzi 22
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Giovanni De Ninno 6, 23
, 
Jonas Wätzel 24, 25
, 
Jamal Berakdar 24, 25
, 
Sadia Bari 3, 26
, 
Lucas Schwob 3
, 
Jérémy R. Rouxel 27
, 
Shaul Mukamel 28
, 
Klaus Bartschat 29
, 
Kathryn Hamilton 30
, 
Luca Argenti 31
, 
Nicolas Douguet 31
, 
Nikolay M Novikovskiy 32
, 
Philipp V Demekhin 32
, 
PETER WALTER 1, 2, 7, 33
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Institut für Experimentalphysik
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Institut für Kernphysik
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Solid State Institute and Physics Department
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Institute of Physics
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Drake University
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2025-01-27
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CiteScore: 6.8
Impact factor: 4.2
ISSN: 26431564
Abstract

Free-electron lasers (FELs) are the world's most brilliant light sources with rapidly evolving technological capabilities in terms of ultrabright and ultrashort pulses over a large range of photon energies. Their revolutionary and innovative developments have opened new fields of science regarding nonlinear light-matter interaction, the investigation of ultrafast processes from specific observer sites, and approaches to imaging matter with atomic resolution. A core aspect of FEL science is the study of isolated and prototypical systems in the gas phase with the possibility of addressing well-defined electronic transitions or particular atomic sites in molecules. Notably for polarization-controlled short-wavelength FELs, the gas phase offers new avenues for investigations of nonlinear and ultrafast phenomena in spin-orientated systems, for decoding the function of the chiral building blocks of life as well as steering reactions and particle emission dynamics in otherwise inaccessible ways. This roadmap comprises descriptions of technological capabilities of facilities worldwide, innovative diagnostics and instrumentation, as well as recent scientific highlights, novel methodology, and mathematical modeling. The experimental and theoretical landscape of using polarization controllable FELs for dichroic light-matter interaction in the gas phase will be discussed and comprehensively outlined to stimulate and strengthen global collaborative efforts of all disciplines.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1103/physrevresearch.7.011001
UR - https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.011001
TI - Opportunities for gas-phase science at short-wavelength free-electron lasers with undulator-based polarization control
T2 - Physical Review Research
AU - Ilchen, Markus
AU - Allaria, Enrico
AU - Rebernik Ribič, Primož
AU - Nuhn, Heinz-Dieter
AU - Lutman, Alberto
AU - Schneidmiller, Evgeny
AU - Tischer, Markus
AU - Yurkov, Mikail
AU - Calvi, Marco
AU - Prat, Eduard
AU - REICHE, SVEN
AU - Schmidt, Thomas
AU - Geloni, Gianluca Aldo
AU - Karabekyan, Suren
AU - Yan, Jiawei
AU - Serkez, Svitozar
AU - Gao, Zhangfeng
AU - Deng, Bangjie
AU - Feng, Chao
AU - Deng, Haixiao
AU - Helml, Wolfram
AU - Funke, Lars
AU - Larsson, Mats
AU - Zhaunerchyk, Vitali
AU - Meyer, Michael
AU - Mazza, Tommaso
AU - Jahnke, Till
AU - Dörner, Reinhard
AU - Calegari, Francesca
AU - Smirnova, Olga
AU - Vozzi, Caterina
AU - De Ninno, Giovanni
AU - Wätzel, Jonas
AU - Berakdar, Jamal
AU - Bari, Sadia
AU - Schwob, Lucas
AU - Rouxel, Jérémy R.
AU - Mukamel, Shaul
AU - Bartschat, Klaus
AU - Hamilton, Kathryn
AU - Argenti, Luca
AU - Douguet, Nicolas
AU - Novikovskiy, Nikolay M
AU - Demekhin, Philipp V
AU - WALTER, PETER
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/01/27
PB - American Physical Society (APS)
IS - 1
VL - 7
SN - 2643-1564
ER -
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@article{2025_Ilchen,
author = {Markus Ilchen and Enrico Allaria and Primož Rebernik Ribič and Heinz-Dieter Nuhn and Alberto Lutman and Evgeny Schneidmiller and Markus Tischer and Mikail Yurkov and Marco Calvi and Eduard Prat and SVEN REICHE and Thomas Schmidt and Gianluca Aldo Geloni and Suren Karabekyan and Jiawei Yan and Svitozar Serkez and Zhangfeng Gao and Bangjie Deng and Chao Feng and Haixiao Deng and Wolfram Helml and Lars Funke and Mats Larsson and Vitali Zhaunerchyk and Michael Meyer and Tommaso Mazza and Till Jahnke and Reinhard Dörner and Francesca Calegari and Olga Smirnova and Caterina Vozzi and Giovanni De Ninno and Jonas Wätzel and Jamal Berakdar and Sadia Bari and Lucas Schwob and Jérémy R. Rouxel and Shaul Mukamel and Klaus Bartschat and Kathryn Hamilton and Luca Argenti and Nicolas Douguet and Nikolay M Novikovskiy and Philipp V Demekhin and PETER WALTER and others},
title = {Opportunities for gas-phase science at short-wavelength free-electron lasers with undulator-based polarization control},
journal = {Physical Review Research},
year = {2025},
volume = {7},
publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
month = {jan},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.011001},
number = {1},
pages = {011001},
doi = {10.1103/physrevresearch.7.011001}
}