Nicola Mayer

Research Fellow · King's College London

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, preprints and theses.

2026

Enantiosensitive exceptional points in open chiral systems.
N. Mayer, A. G Löhr, N. Moiseyev, M. Ivanov & O. Smirnova
Physical Review A, 114, 013517 (2026)

2025

Attosecond Optical Orientation.
L. B. Drescher, N. Mayer, K. Gannan, J. R Adelman, & S. R Leone
Physical Review Letters, 135(16), 163201 (2025).
Chiral topological light for robust enantiosensitive detection of molecular chirality.
N. Mayer, D. Ayuso, P. Decleva, M. Khokhlova, E. Pisanty, M. Ivanov & O. Smirnova
Active Photonic Platforms (APP), 13578, 120-128 (2025).

2024

Chiral topological light for detection of robust enantiosensitive observables.
N. Mayer, D. Ayuso, P. Decleva, M. Khokhlova, E. Pisanty, M. Ivanov & O. Smirnova
Nature Photonics, 18 (11), 1155-1160 (2024).

2023

Imprinting Chirality on Atoms Using Synthetic Chiral Light Fields.
N. Mayer, S. Patchkovskii, F. Morales, M. Ivanov & O. Smirnova
Physical Review Letters, 129 (24), 243201 (2023).
Role of Spin-Orbit Coupling in High-Order Harmonic Generation Revealed by Supercycle Rydberg Trajectories.
N. Mayer, S. Beaulieu, Á. Jiménez-Galán, S. Patchkovskii, O. Kornilov, D. Descamps, S. Petit, O. Smirnova, Y. Mairesse & M. Yu. Ivanov
Physical Review Letters, 129 (17), 173202 (2023).

2016-2022

Population transfer to high angular momentum states in infrared-assisted XUV photoionization of helium.
N. Mayer, P. Peng, D. M Villeneuve, S. Patchkovskii, M. Ivanov, O. Kornilov, MJJ Vrakking & H. Niikura
Journal of Physics B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 53 (16), 164003 (2020).
Femtosecond extreme ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of organic molecules in aqueous solution.
J. Hummert, G. Reitsma, N. Mayer, E. Ikonnikov, M. Eckstein & O. Kornilov
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 (22), 6649-6655 (2018).
Interference stabilization of autoionizing states in molecular N2 studied by time-and angular-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
M. Eckstein, N. Mayer, CH Yang, G. Sansone, MJJ Vrakking, M. Ivanov & O. Kornilov
Faraday Discussions, 194, 509-524 (2016).
Chiral moments make chiral measures.
E. Pisanty, N. Mayer, A. Ordóñez, A. G Löhr & M. Khokhlova
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2603.26793 (2026).
Ultrafast spectroscopy and control of quantum dynamics in tailored multicolor laser fields.
N. Mayer, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Misha Yu. Ivanov
PhD thesis, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
Interference stabilization of complex molecular Fano resonances.
N. Mayer, Advisors: Prof. Dr. Misha Yu. Ivanov & Dr. Oleg Kornilov
MSc thesis, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2017.
Study of the ultrafast vibrational dynamics of the retinal chromophore and its counterion in liquid phase.
N. Mayer, Advisors: Prof. Dr. Fulvio Parmigiani & Dr. Goran Zgrablić
BSc thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, 2015.
La meccanica quantistica e la fine del determinismo.
N. Mayer
High School Diploma thesis, Liceo Leopardi-Majorana, Pordenone, Italy, 2010.