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Liquid water at ambient temperature displays ultrafast molecular motions and concomitant fluctuations of very strong electric fields originating from the dipolar H2O molecules. We show that such random intermolecular fields induce tunnel…

The temporal dynamics of double ionization of H2 has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically with few-cycle laser pulses. The main observables are the proton spectra associated to the H^+ + H^+ fragmentation channel. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-23 Sébastien Saugout , Eric Charron , Christian Cornaggia

We investigate ionization of neon atoms by an isolated attosecond pump pulse in the presence of two coherent extreme ultraviolet or x-ray probe fields. The probe fields are tuned to a core-valence transition in the residual ion and induce…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Jhih-An You , Nina Rohringer , Jan Marcus Dahlström

We consider the excitation dynamics of the two-photon \sts transition in a beam of atomic hydrogen by 243 nm laser radiation. Specifically, we study the impact of ionization damping on the transition line shape, caused by the possibility of…

The multiphoton ionization of hydrogen by a strong bichromatic microwave field is a complex process prototypical for atomic control research. Periodic orbit analysis captures this complexity: Through the stability of periodic orbits we can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Huang , C. Chandre , T. Uzer

Using a three-dimensional quasiclassical technique we explore the double ionization pathways of a diatomic molecule driven by an intense infrared (800nm) ultrashort laser pulse. For intensities corresponding to the tunneling regime, we find…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Agapi Emmanouilidou

It has been recently predicted theoretically that due to nuclear motion light and heavy hydrogen molecules exposed to strong electric field should exhibit substantially different tunneling ionization rates (O.I. Tolstikhin, H.J. Worner and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 X. Wang , H. Xu , A. Atia-Tul-Noor , B. T. Hu , D. Kielpinski , R. T. Sang , I. V. Litvinyuk

Ionization is one of the basic physical processes, occurring when charged particles penetrate atomic matter. When atoms are bombarded by very dense and compact beams of extreme relativistic electrons, two qualitatively new -- and very…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 S. Kim , C. Müller , A. B. Voitkiv

Measuring and controlling the ionization dynamics by intense laser fields has recently led to important breakthroughs, from the investigation of tunneling time delays to attosecond molecular imaging by electron holography. In these…

The development of attosecond technology has enabled the real-time observation of coherent electron motion in atoms, molecules and condensed phases. Experimentally, it is now possible to generate laser pulses of durations of only a few tens…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 David Ayuso

We present an efficient method for modeling the single and double ionization dynamics of the H$_2$ molecule in ultrashort intense laser fields. This method is based on a semi-analytical approach to calculate the time-dependent single and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jean-Nicolas Vigneau , Thanh-Tung Nguyen Dang , Eric Charron

The ionization of a hydrogen-like heavy ion by impact of a charged projectile under simultaneous irradiation by a short laser pulse is investigated within the non-perturbative approach, based on numerical solutions of the time-dependent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 O. Novak , R. Kholodov , A. N. Artemyev , A. Surzhykov , Th. Stoehlker

The ionization dynamic of argon plasma irradiated by an intense laser is investigated to understand transient physics in dynamic systems. This study demonstrates that significant delayed ionization responses and stepwise ionization…

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Double electron ionisation process occurs when an intense laser pulse interacts with atoms or molecules. Exact {\it ab initio} numerical simulation of such a situation is extremely computer resources demanding, thus often one is forced to…

Massively parallel ionization of many atoms in a cluster or bio-molecule is identified as new phenomenon of light-matter interaction which becomes feasible through short and intense FEL pulses. Almost simultaneously emitted from the…

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The junction of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) operating in the tunneling regime was irradiated with femtosecond laser pulses. A photo-excited hot electron in the STM tip resonantly tunnels into an excited state of a single molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shiwei Wu , Wilson Ho

We investigate theoretically the dissociative ionization of a H2+ molecule using two ultrashort laser (pump-probe) pulses. The pump pulse prepares a dissociating nuclear wave packet on an ungerade surface of H2+. Next, an UV (or XUV) probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Szczepan Chelkowski , André D. Bandrauk

The laser-induced fragmentation dynamics of this most fundamental polar molecule HeH$^+$ are measured using an ion beam of helium hydride and an isotopologue at various wavelengths and intensities. In contrast to the prevailing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 P. Wustelt , F. Oppermann , Lun Yue , M. Möller , T. Stöhlker , S. Gräfe , M. Lein , G. G. Paulus , A. M. Sayler

We study single-photon ionization of aligned H$_2^+$ in low-intensity near-circular laser fields with lower photon energy numerically and analytically. The photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) within the laser polarization plane,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Z. Y. Chen , S. Q. Shen , M. Q. Liu , J. Y. Che , Y. J. Chen

We theoretically study the influence of laser polarization in inelastic scattering of electrons by hydrogen atoms in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field in the domain of field strengths below $10^{7}$ V/cm and high projectile…

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