UCL Promotor : Bernard Piraux
UCL Collaborators :
External collaborations : Paul-Antoine Hervieux (Strasbourg, France), Moïse Kwato and Cladisse Meyap Soh (CEPAMOQ, Douala, Cameroun)
We solve numerically the Pauli equation associated to the interaction of atomic hydrogen with an ultrashort laser pulse. In the non relativistic limit, the presence of interaction terms involving successive time derivatives of the electric field and the electronic spin indicates that attosecond pulses could induce spin flips at the atomic scale.