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Dissertation
Electron Dynamics Driven by Intense Coherent Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Dynamic Interference in Atoms and Photoelectron Circular Dichroism in Chiral Molecules
(2018-12)
Since humans have begun to explore nature, they came up with new ways and tools, which have been permanently improved. At some point, those tools allowed to look into the microworld and to study the quantum nature of matter. One of such tools to explore the quantum world is the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser). Since the first lasers were built almost 60 years ago, their capabilities improved permanently, allowing the study of hitherto-unknown physical phenomena. Two of such phenomena, ...
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High-precision force sensing using a single trapped ion
(2016-06-16)
We introduce quantum sensing schemes for measuring very weak forces with a single trapped ion. They use the spin-motional coupling induced by the laser-ion interaction to transfer the relevant force information to the spin-degree of freedom. Therefore, the force estimation is carried out simply by observing the Ramsey-type oscillations of the ion spin states. Three quantum probes are considered, which are represented by systems obeying the Jaynes-Cummings, quantum Rabi (in 1D) and Jahn-Teller (in 2D) models. By using ...
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Preferential weakening of rotational magnetic anisotropy by keV-He ion bombardment in polycrystalline exchange bias layer systems
(2018-05-04)
The consequences of keV light-ion bombardment of polycrystalline exchange bias layer systems on individual magnetic anisotropies composing the effective unidirectional magnetic anisotropy are investigated by vectorial magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements. Preferential reduction of rotatable magnetic anisotropy as compared to the other magnetic anisotropies is observable, disproving the intuitive assumption of an equable weakening of all magnetic anisotropies due to the bombardment. It is concluded that light-ion ...
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Optimal control theory for a unitary operation under dissipative evolution
(2014)
We show that optimizing a quantum gate for an open quantum system requires the time evolution of only three states irrespective of the dimension of Hilbert space. This represents a significant reduction in computational resources compared to the complete basis of Liouville space that is commonly believed necessary for this task. The reduction is based on two observations: the target is not a general dynamical map but a unitary operation; and the time evolution of two properly chosen states is sufficient to distinguish ...
Dissertation
Chiral recognition in the gas phase using femtosecond to nanosecond photoelectron circular dichroism
(2020-05)
Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die chirale Erkennung in der Gasphase unter Verwendung der resonant verstärkten Multi-Photonen-Ionisation. Gasphasentechniken bieten die Möglichkeit, die Chiralität von Molekülen innerhalb einer nahezu interaktionsfreien Umgebung zu untersuchen. Photoionisation von chiralen Molekülen mit zirkular polarisiertem Licht führt zu einer Asymmetrie in der Photoelektronenemission bezüglich der Ausbreitungsrichtung des ionisierenden Lichts. Diese Asymmetrie ist bekannt als Photoelektronenz ...
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Hybrid optimization schemes for quantum control
(Springer Open, 2015)
Optimal control theory is a powerful tool for solving control problems in quantum mechanics, ranging from the control of chemical reactions to the implementation of gates in a quantum computer. Gradient-based optimization methods are able to find high fidelity controls, but require considerable numerical effort and often yield highly complex solutions. We propose here to employ a two-stage optimization scheme to significantly speed up convergence and achieve simpler controls. The control is initially parametrized ...
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Exploiting non-Markovianity for quantum control
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
Quantum technology, exploiting entanglement and the wave nature of matter, relies on the ability to accurately control quantum systems. Quantum control is often compromised by the interaction of the system with its environment since this causes loss of amplitude and phase. However, when the dynamics of the open quantum system is non-Markovian, amplitude and phase flow not only from the system into the environment but also back. Interaction with the environment is then not necessarily detrimental. We show that the ...
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Vesicle motion during sustained exocytosis in chromaffin cells
(PLoS, 2015)
Chromaffin cells release catecholamines by exocytosis, a process that includes vesicle docking, priming and fusion. Although all these steps have been intensively studied, some aspects of their mechanisms, particularly those regarding vesicle transport to the active sites situated at the membrane, are still unclear. In this work, we show that it is possible to extract information on vesicle motion in Chromaffin cells from the combination of Langevin simulations and amperometric measurements. We developed a numerical ...