Descriptif

This course, with hands-on exercise sessions, will provide a unified treatment for the understanding of quantum dynamical processes taking place in laser-matter interaction, with particular emphasis on non-linear interactions and on ultra-short processes. This will include the control of atomic and molecular dynamics using external fields, quantum interferences between indistinguishable pathways, strong field non-linear physics and energy relaxation processes in the statistical limit. All phenomena will be introduced and explained from a time-dependent quantum mechanical perspective.