This diagram shows the four electronic states of the system: the two lowest-energy states, \(\Phi_1\) and \(\Phi_2\), which form the coherent superposition prepared by the pump pulse, and the two higher-lying final states, \(\Phi_{F_1}\) and \(\Phi_{F_2}\), reached upon absorption of the probe photon. The colored arrows mark the four allowed transitions, matching the colors of the corresponding sliders in the panel on the right.
Transition Dipole Moments & Population
The four colored sliders set the transition dipole matrix elements \(\langle \Phi_I | \hat{\mu} | \Phi_F \rangle\) between the initial states \(\Phi_1\), \(\Phi_2\) and the final states \(\Phi_{F_1}\), \(\Phi_{F_2}\), matching the colors of the arrows in the energy level diagram. The bottom slider, \(c^2_1\), sets the population weight of \(\Phi_1\) relative to \(\Phi_2\) in the initial superposition state.
This plot shows the two-dimensional transient absorption spectrum \(\sigma(\omega,\tau)\) as a function of the pump-probe time delay \(\tau\) (horizontal axis) and the photon energy \(\omega\) (vertical axis), computed from the formula above. The colored bars on the right edge mark the four photon energies selected with the vertical slider, matching the colors of the corresponding lineouts shown in the panel on the right.
Energy-Resolved Lineouts
This plot shows lineouts of the transient absorption spectrum at the four photon energies selected with the vertical slider between the two plots. Each trace shows how the absorption signal at a given final-state transition energy oscillates as a function of the pump-probe delay \(\tau\), revealing the coherent dynamics of the superposition state. The color of each trace matches the corresponding energy marker on the spectrum to the left.
Welcome to the Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (ATAS) Learning Tool!
Developers: Nikolay Golubev
This interactive tool demonstrates how attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) can be used to probe coherent electron dynamics in a quantum system prepared in a superposition of its two lowest-energy states. The two higher-lying states act as final states for the absorption process, giving rise to distinct spectral features. By adjusting the system parameters, explore how the populations, coherences, and relative phases of the quantum states influence the amplitudes and phases of the corresponding absorption transitions.
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