Perspective: Preservation of coherence in photophysical processes

Theis I Sølling; Klaus B Møller

doi:10.1063/1.5079265

Perspective: Preservation of coherence in photophysical processes

Struct Dyn. 2018 Dec 26;5(6):060901. doi: 10.1063/1.5079265. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Theis I Sølling¹, Klaus B Møller²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Integrative Petroleum Research, College of Petroleum and Geosciences, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 207, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.

Abstract

Coherence is one of the most important phenomena in ultrafast sciences. We give our perspective on the terminology, observation, and preservation of coherence in photophysical processes with some glimpses to the past and some looking-head to what may pave the way for scaling one of the last bastions in ultrafast science, namely, that of mode specific chemistry where it will be possible to break any specific bond by tailoring the pulse, an accomplishment that obviously would be the dream of any chemist.