Classical simulations including electron correlations for sequential double ionization
Abstract
With a classical ensemble model that including electron correlations during the whole ionization process, we investigated strong-field sequential double ionization of Ar by elliptically polarized pulses at the quantitative level. The experimentally observed intensity-dependent three-band or four-band structures in the ion momentum distributions are well reproduced with this classical model. More importantly, the experimentally measured ionization time of the second electrons [A. N. Pfeiffer et al., Nature Phys. 7, 428 (2011)], which can not be predicted by the standard independent-electron model, is quantitatively reproduced by this fully classical correlated model. The success of our work encourages classical description and interpretation of the complex multi-electron effects in strong field ionization where nonperturbative quantum approaches are currently not feasible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.3956,
title = {Classical simulations including electron correlations for sequential double ionization},
author = {Yueming Zhou and Cheng Huang and Qing Liao and Peixiang Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3956},
year = {2015}
}