Figure 1

[Corrected Fig. 1(b)] Collective contributions of the quintet (red bars) spin-free (SF) states to the stationary spin-orbit coupled (SOC) eigenstates ${\sum }_{j,M_S}|c_j^{(S=2,M_S)}{|}^2$, see Eq. (1). The grey areas correspond to the triplet SF states (${\sum }_{j,M_S}|c_j^{(S=1,M_S)}{|}^2$), which together with the quintet ones, sum up to unity. The particular contributions of valence SF states (${\mathrm{SF}}_{\text{val}}$, green bars) and core SF states (${\mathrm{SF}}_{\text{core}}$ blue bars) to the different SOC states are also shown. Numbered horizontal bars reflect the bandwidths of 3.1 eV (1 and 3) and 31.4 eV (1’, 2’, and 3’) pulses with carrier frequencies (marked by dashed lines) as given in panel (a) of Fig. 1.