Communication: Control of the fragment state distributions produced upon decay of an isolated resonance state

4 págs.; 3 figs.Control of the fragment state distributions produced upon decay of a resonance state is achieved by using a weak laser field consisting of two pulses with a varying time delay between them. It is shown that specific product fragment states can be significantly favored or quenched. The efficiency and flexibility of the control method are found to increase with increasing resonance width. The control scheme is completely independent of the specific system to which it is applied, which makes its applicability universal. AIP Publishing.This work was funded by the Ministerio de Economía\udy Competitividad, MINECO (Spain), Grant No. CTQ2015-\ud65033-P, and COST Action program, Grant Nos. CM1401\udand CM1405. The Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia\ud(CESGA, Spain) is acknowledged for the use of its resources.Peer Reviewe