Coherent response of the electronic system driven by non-interfering laser pulses

Light–matter interaction is expected to be isotropic in free-electron-like materials. Here, by using time- and phase-resolved photoemission, the authors observe signatures of an anisotropic interaction on a noble metal surface, that can only be accounted for by optical transition dipoles with a fixed orientation.

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