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Recent attoclock experiments using the attsecond angular streaking technique enabled the measurement of the tunneling time delay during laser induced strong field ionization. Theoretically the tunneling time delay is commonly modelled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We are in the process of building an experiment to study the tunneling of laser-cooled Rubidium atoms through an optical barrier. A particularly thorny set of questions arises when one considers the possibility of observing a tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Steinberg

Strong-field ionization by counter-rotating two-color laser fields produces quantum interference between photoelectrons emitted on the leading and trailing edges of the laser field oscillations. We show that in chiral molecules, this…

The measurement of the tunneling time-delay is hotly debated and remains controversial. In previous works, we showed that a model that accurately describes the time-delay measured by the attoclock experiment in adiabatic and nonadiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Ossama Kullie

We calculate the transient absorption of an isolated attosecond pulse by helium atoms subject to a delayed infrared (\ir) laser pulse. With the central frequency of the broad attosecond spectrum near the ionization threshold, the absorption…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Shaohao Chen , Mengxi Wu , Mette B. Gaarde , Kenneth J. Schafer

Theoretical study on H$_2^+$ in an intense infrared laser field on the attosecond time-scale reveals that the molecular ion shows multiple bursts of ionization within a half-cycle of the laser field oscillation, in contrast to the widely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Norio Takemoto , Andreas Becker

The measurement of the tunneling time (T-time) in today's attosecond and strong field (low-frequency) experiments, despite its controversial discussion, offers a fruitful opportunity to understand time measurement and the time in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Ossama Kullie

The measurement of the tunneling time in attosecond experiments, termed attoclock, triggered a hot debate about the tunneling time, the role of time in quantum mechanics, where the interaction with the laser pulse involves two regimes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Ossama Kullie , Igor Ivanov

We consider tunnel ionization of an atom or molecule in a strong field within an analytical treatment of the R-matrix method, in which an imaginary boundary is set up inside the classically forbidden region that acts as a source of ionized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Emilio Pisanty

By measuring energy spectra of the electron emission from a sharp tungsten tip induced by few-cycle laser pulses, the laser-field dependence of the emission mechanism was investigated. In strong laser fields, we confirm the appearance of…

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser pulses, with duration on the femto- and sub-femtosecond time…

Attosecond photoionisation time delays reveal information about the potential energy landscape an outgoing electron wavepacket probes upon ionisation. In this study we experimentally quantify, for the first time, the dependence of the time…

During multi-photon ionization of an atom it is well understood how the involved photons transfer their energy to the ion and the photoelectron. However, the transfer of the photon linear momentum is still not fully understood. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Benjamin Willenberg , Jochen Maurer , Benedikt W. Mayer , Ursula Keller

Interaction of a strong laser pulse with matter transfers not only energy but also linear momentum of the photons. Recent experimental advances have made it possible to detect the small amount of linear momentum delivered to the…

Based on numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for either one or two active electrons, we propose a method for observing instantaneous level shifts in an oscillating strong infrared (IR) field in time, using a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng He , Camilo Ruiz , Andreas Becker , Uwe Thumm

We investigate the feasibility of using high-harmonic generation (HHG) as a complementary probe of tunneling delay in strong-field ionization. By combining time--frequency analysis of HHG spectra obtained from full time-dependent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Amol R. Holkundkar

Attosecond angular streaking measurements have revealed deep insights into the timing of tunnel ionization processes of atoms in intense laser fields. So far experiments of this type have been performed only with a cold-target recoil-ion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Matthias Weger , Jochen Maurer , André Ludwig , Lukas Gallmann , Ursula Keller

The resources needed for Particle in Cell simulations of Laser Wakefield Acceleration can be greatly reduced in many cases of interest using an envelope model. However, the inclusion of tunneling ionization in this time averaged treatment…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Francesco Massimo , Arnaud Beck , Julien Dérouillat , Imen Zemzemi , Arnd Specka

Quantum tunneling allows electrons to be transferred between two regions separated by an energetically forbidden barrier. Performing a position measurement that finds a particle in the barrier forces the tunneling electrons to transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Rafael Sánchez , Alok Nath Singh , Andrew N. Jordan , Bibek Bhandari

Numerical attoclock is a theoretical model of attosecond angular streaking driven by a very short, nearly a single oscillation, circularly polarized laser pulse. The reading of such an attoclock is readily obtained from a numerical solution…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Vladislav V. Serov , Alexander W. Bray , Anatoli S. Kheifets