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A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2023 | Viewed by 315
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nonlinear X-ray wave mixing; selective molecular excitation; XFEL and HHG sources
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nonlinear processes that have long been studied in the infrared and optical regions are being extended to the EUV and X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum as a result of recent advances in the generation of coherent pulses in free-electron lasers and in high-harmonic generation. Understanding the nonlinear response of atoms, molecules and materials at the microscopic scale is key to a number of areas of applied sciences. The impact of field and matter symmetry in the efficiencies of nonlinear wave mixing processes at the short wavelengths is still poorly understood in many circumstances, although first fundamental observations indicate its dominant contribution. For instance, inversion symmetry ordinarily related to nonlinear processes in condensed matter has been shown to apply at the atomic scale in single molecules, and for the harder X-ray the role of symmetry on non-dipole interactions is being a subject of study. Therefore, both theories and experimental research are needed to resolve the microscopic details of nonlinear light–matter interactions at the higher photon energies and their link to symmetry.
The present Special Issue of Symmetry is focused on this emerging fascinating topic.
Dr. Carles Serrat Jurado
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- EUV and X-ray nonlinear wave-mixing
- inversion symmetry
- X-ray free-electron lasers
- high-harmonic generation
- ultrafast
- nanoscale
