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Real-time probing electron dynamics of an atom in a strong infrared laser field

Atomic Physics 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

We present theoretical studies on real-time probing the electron density evolution of an atom in a strong infrared (IR) laser field with few-cycle near-infrared (NIR) and attosecond extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses. Our results indicate that the electron density near the tunneling barrier is reflected in the additional tunneling ionization yield with a delayed NIR pulse and the electron density near the nucleus can be probed by the single photoionization yield with a delayed XUV pulse. It turns out the NIR-probing scheme can be used to study the polarization of the system in an external IR field and the XUV-probing can be additionally applied to explore excitation dynamics during and after the IR field interaction.

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@article{arxiv.1412.6417,
  title  = {Real-time probing electron dynamics of an atom in a strong infrared laser field},
  author = {Yunpei Deng and Xinhua Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6417},
  year   = {2015}
}