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Arvinder Sandhu

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Physics | Professor, Optical Sciences

Physics

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The field of attosecond science provides exciting opportunities for ultrafast measurement and control at the level of electrons. My research is geared towards the new applications of attosecond spectroscopy to address questions in the areas of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Chemical Physics and Nanomaterials. Research projects in my lab focus on the 1) Generation and application of high-flux attosecond x-ray pulses, 2) Study of charge migration and coupled electron-nuclear dynamics in molecules, 3) Electronic wavepacket dynamics and decoherence, 4) Control of electronic processes with laser fields, 5) Exciton dynamics and electron correlations in two-dimensional materials. Recently, we demonstrated the use of extreme ultraviolet, attosecond light bursts to strobe the motion of an electron in a polyatomic molecule and film its coherent evolution near a conical intersection. At this intersection, the simple energy landscape picture breaks down and the electron is essentially at molecular crossroads. Our results shed light on the question of how strongly electrons and nuclei influence each other during charge transfer.

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    • Methods of Experimental Physics II

    • Honors Introductory Relativity and Quantum Physics

    • Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists I

    • Honors Introductory Electricity and Magnetism

    • Honors Introductory Mechanics

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