Advances in attosecond science have led to a wealth of important discoveries in atomic, molecular, and solid-state physics and are progressively directing their footsteps toward problems of chemical interest. Relevant technical achievements in the generation and application of extreme-ultraviolet subfemtosecond pulses, the introduction of experimental techniques able to follow in time the electron dynamics in quantum systems, and the development of sophisticated theoretical methods for the interpretation of the outcomes of such experiments have raised a continuous growing interest in attosecond phenomena, as demonstrated by the vast literature on the subject. In this review, after introducing the physical mechanisms at the basis of attosecond pulse generation and attosecond technology and describing the theoretical tools that complement experimental research in this field, we will concentrate on the application of attosecond methods to the investigation of ultrafast processes in molecules, with emphasis in molecules of chemical and biological interest. The measurement and control of electronic motion in complex molecular structures is a formidable challenge, for both theory and experiment, but will indubitably have a tremendous impact on chemistry in the years to come.

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分子中的阿秒电子动力学

原子级科学的发展导致了原子，分子和固态物理学方面的大量重要发现，并将其足迹逐步引向了化学关注的问题。产生和应用极紫外亚飞秒脉冲的相关技术成就，能够及时跟踪量子系统中电子动力学的实验技术的引入，以及解释此类实验结果的复杂理论方法的发展正如有关该主题的大量文献所证明的那样，对阿秒现象的兴趣不断增长。在这篇评论中，在介绍了以阿秒脉冲产生和阿秒技术为基础的物理机制并描述了补充该领域实验研究的理论工具之后，我们将专注于将阿秒方法应用于分子超快过程的研究，重点是分子具有化学和生物学意义。对于理论和实验而言，复杂分子结构中电子运动的测量和控制都是一个艰巨的挑战，但在未来几年中，无疑将对化学产生巨大影响。