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Holographic Angular Streaking of Electrons and the Wigner-Time Delay

Quantum Physics 2020-08-17 v5 Atomic Physics

Abstract

For a circularly polarized single-color field at a central frequency of 2ω2\omega the final electron momentum distribution upon strong field ionization does not carry any information about the phase of the initial momentum distribution. Adding a weak, co-rotating, circularly polarized field at a central frequency of ω\omega gives rise to a sub-cycle interference pattern (holographic angular streaking of electrons (HASE)). This interference pattern allows for the retrieval of the derivative of the phase of the initial momentum distribution after tunneling ϕoff(pi)\phi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{off}}(p_i). A trajectory-based semi-classical model (HASE model) is introduced which links the experimentally accessible quantities to ϕoff(pi)\phi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{off}}(p_i). It is shown that a change in ϕoff\phi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{off}} is equivalent to a displacement in position space Δx\Delta x of the initial wave packet after tunneling. This offset in position space allows for an intuitive interpretation of the Wigner time delay ΔτW\Delta \tau_W in strong field ionization for circularly polarized single-color fields. The influence of Coulomb interaction after tunneling is investigated quantitatively.

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@article{arxiv.2003.07249,
  title  = {Holographic Angular Streaking of Electrons and the Wigner-Time Delay},
  author = {Sebastian Eckart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07249},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 11 figures

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