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Two-center resonant photoionization-excitation driven by combined intra- and interatomic electron correlations

Atomic Physics 2023-09-06 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

Ionization-excitation of an atom induced by the absorption of a single photon in the presence of a neighbouring atom is studied. The latter is, first, resonantly photoexcited and, afterwards, transfers the excitation energy radiationlessly to the other atom, leading to its ionization with simultaneous excitation. The process relies on the combined effects of interatomic and intraatomic electron correlations. Under suitable conditions, it can dominate by several orders of magnitude over direct photoionization-excitation and even over direct photoionization. In addition, we briefly discuss another kind of two-center resonant photoionization with excitation where the ionization and residual excitation in the final state are located at different atomic sites.

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@article{arxiv.2309.01143,
  title  = {Two-center resonant photoionization-excitation driven by combined intra- and interatomic electron correlations},
  author = {S. Kim and S. Steinhäuser and A. B. Voitkiv and C. Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01143},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.08123