Effects of realistic pulse shapes in two-dimensional spectroscopy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02275v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:11:56 GMT
• Title: Effects of realistic pulse shapes in two-dimensional spectroscopy
• Abstract summary: We present an efficient method for 2D spectroscopy simulations in the Markovian limit for the environment.<n>We show that realistic pulses can induce the appearance of additional spectral features, lineshape distortions and oscillating contributions in the system's dynamics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy is a powerful pump-pump-probe technique for revealing couplings between quantum states and disentangling the different contributions to the optical response of a system. We present an efficient method for 2D spectroscopy simulations in the Markovian limit for the environment, capable of handling arbitrary pulse shapes and reproducing time-ordering and overlapping pulse effects, while maintaining a computational cost that scales linearly with the number of sampling points. We leverage this framework to investigate how 2D spectra are affected by spectral phase distortions and highly non-Gaussian pulse shapes, such as those produced experimentally by hollow-core fibers or non-collinear optical amplifiers. We show that realistic pulses can induce the appearance of additional spectral features, lineshape distortions and oscillating contributions in the system's dynamics. Notably, even weak temporal pulse tails arising from uncorrected high-order spectral phase terms cause visible changes in the 2D spectra. We also find that homodyne detection schemes employed in experiments can mitigate the presence of such pulse effects. These results emphasize the importance of including realistic pulses in 2D spectroscopy simulations to identify pulse-induced effects and minimize ambiguities in the interpretation of experimental data.

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