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28. November 2016

Dr. Maria Richter of the Max Born Institute receives the Promotion Prize 2016 of the Leibniz Association

At its annual meeting the Leibniz Association in Berlin awarded physicist Maria Richter for her outstanding doctoral thesis

Dr. Maria Richter. Photo: Leibniz Association/David Ausserhofer
Dr. Maria Richter. Photo: Leibniz Association/David Ausserhofer

Dr. Maria Richter developed in her PhD thesis "Imaging and controlling electronic and nuclear dynamics in strong laser fields" new theoretical and practical methods to visualize the ultrafast response of atoms and molecules to strong laser fields. Usually it is assumed that a strong laser field leads to ionization of the atom, where one or several electrons are ejected from the atomic shell, leaving a positively charged ion behind. However, Maria Richter showed with numerical calculations that instead of the emission of electrons, a new system can form – the so-called "atom plus superatomic field" –, which supports stable electronic states. The structure of the new atom is strongly modified compared to the field-free atomic structure.

The new electronic structure of an atom exposed to a strong laser field has been calculated by Richter in the case of the potassium atom, and with that it has then been shown how the new structure can be imaged in experiments using photoelectron spectroscopy. Thereby she developed methods to identify the exotic laser-dressed atomic structure in a direct and unambiguous fashion with strong fields. Furthermore, she presents a new way to control the charge and energy flow in molecules, by modifying the electronic structure of the molecule with intense laser fields. Her findings are important steps towards a better understanding and control of photo-induced chemical, physicochemical and biophysical reactions in molecules, which, for instance, play a role in the stability of DNA against irradiation or in the first step of vision.

Maria Richter presented her results on several international conferences. More than three months before defending her thesis, she joined a world-renowned research group in the Department of Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Publication:
M. Richter, F. Bouakline, J. González-Vázquez, L. Martínez-Fernández, I. Corral, S. Patchkovskii, F. Morales, M. Ivanov, F. Martín, F., O. Smirnova, "Sub-laser-cycle control of coupled electron-nuclear dynamics at a conical intersection", New Journal of Physics, 17, 113023 (2015). DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113023

M. Richter, S. Patchkovskii, F. Morales, O. Smirnova, M. Ivanov, Misha,"The role of the Kramers-Henneberger atom in the higher-order Kerr effect". New Journal of Physics, 15, 083012 (2013). DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/8/083012.

F. Morales, M. Richter, S. Patchkovskii, O. Smirnova, "Imaging the Kramers-Henneberger atom", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 16906-16911 (2011). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105916108.

About the Prize:
With this Promotion Price the Leibniz Association annually recognizes the best Ph.D. theses of the past year in the categories "humanities and social sciences" and natural and technological sciences.
www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/auszeichnungen/promotionspreis/

Contact

Dr. Maria Richter
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)
Tel.: (030) 6392-1358
Email: maria.richter(at)mbi-berlin.de

www.mbi-berlin.de

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