Intense femtosecond pulses of infrared light can manipulate molecules. It is now shown that such control even extends to making different molecular eigenstates interfere with each other in a way never considered before — a potential tool for optically engineered chemical reactions and for ultrafast information encoding and manipulation.
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Baumert, T. Wave packets get a kick. Nature Phys 7, 373–374 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1979
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