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Pathway of D$^{+}$ in Sequential Double Ionization of D$_2$ in an Intense Laser Pulse

Atomic Physics 2010-11-23 v1 Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

We show the details of the pathway for dissociative ionization process of ground electronic state of aligned D2+^{+}_{2} due to first ionization of D2_2 in short (\thicksim100 fs) and intense (4.0×10144.0\times10^{14} W cm2^{-2}) 480 nm laser pulses. The initial vibrational state of D2+^{+}_{2} comes from the vertical transformation of the ground state of D2_{2}. The initial wavepacket in the ground electronic state of D2+_{2}^{+} is outgoing through dissociation-ionization channel accompanied by a strong coupling between 1sσg1s \sigma_{g} and 2pσu2p \sigma_{u} electronic states. We show explicitly that the transition from the coupling states 1sσg1s \sigma_{g} and 2pσu2p \sigma_{u} to the ionization state is not a direct transition but takes place through other intermediate states with some dissociation energy that results in the internuclear distribution of the ionization to move considerably to larger internuclear distances.

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@article{arxiv.1001.0301,
  title  = {Pathway of D$^{+}$ in Sequential Double Ionization of D$_2$ in an Intense Laser Pulse},
  author = {Mohsen Vafaee and Babak Shokri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0301},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures