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Publications and source records attributed to D. Baykusheva.
In a recent article by P. Hockett \textit{et al.}, time delays arising in the context of molecular single-photon ionization are investigated from a theoretical point of view. We argue that one of the central equations derived in the paper is incorrect and present a reformulation that is consistent with the established treatment of angle-dependent scattering delays.
We report the observation of macroscopic field-free orientation, i.e. more than 73 % of CO molecules pointing in the same direction. This is achieved through an all-optical scheme operating at high particle densities ($>10^{17}$cm$^{-3}$) that combines a one-color ($ω$) and a two-color ($ω+ 2ω$) non-resonant femtosecond laser pulses. We show that the achieved orientation solely relies on the hyperpolarizability interaction as opposed to an ionization-depletion mechanism thus opening a wide range of applications. The achieved strong orientation enables us to reveal the molecular-frame anisotropies of the photorecombination amplitudes and phases caused by a shape resonance. The resonance appears as a local maximum in the even-harmonic emission around 28~eV. In contrast, the odd-harmonic emission is suppressed in this spectral region through the combined effects of an asymmetric photorecombination phase and a sub-cycle Stark effect, generic for polar molecules, that we experimentally identify.