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The implementation of attosecond photoelectron-photoion coincidence spectroscopy for the investigation of atomic and molecular dynamics calls for a high-repetition-rate driving source combined with experimental setups characterized by…

The Wigner delay is defined as the energy derivative of the scattering phase of a particle in a given potential, unveiling the time taken (or gained) due to the interaction. The characterisation of this delay plays a central role in…

Attosecond streaking camera is an ex situ technique in which a linearly polarized (LP) XUV attopulse produces an electron wavepacket by photoionization in the presence of an IR femtopulse. By moving the two synchronous oppositely circularly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 M. A. H. B. Md Yusoff , H. B. Ambalampitiya , J. M. Ngoko Djiokap

We predict a significant delay of two-electron photoemission from the helium atom after absorption of an attosecond XUV pulse. We establish this delay by solving the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation and by subsequent tracing the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 A. S. Kheifets , I. A. Ivanov , Igor. Bray

Time-resolved investigations of ultrafast electronic and molecular dynamics were not possible until recently. The typical time scale of these processes is in the picosecond to attosecond realm. The tremendous technological progress in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Stefan Pabst

Energy coupling during relativistically intense laser-matter interactions is encoded in the attosecond motion of strongly driven electrons at the pre-formed plasma-vacuum boundary. Studying and controlling this motion can reveal details…

We consider the time delay of electron detachment from a Coulomb center and two-center systems in the process of ionization. It is shown that the attosecond streaking, most usual method of time delay measure, can be formally described by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vladislav V. Serov , Vladimir L. Derbov , Tatyana A. Sergeeva

Attosecond science is well developed for atoms and promising results have been obtained for molecules and solids. Here, we review the first steps in developing attosecond time-resolved measurements in liquids. These advances provide access…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-11 H. J. Wörner , A. Schild , D. Jelovina , I. Jordan , C. Perry , T. T. Luu , Z. Yin

Determination and interpretation of Wigner-like photoionisation delays is one of the most active fields of attosecond science. Previous results have suggested that large photoionisation delays are associated with structured continua, but a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Jia-Bao Ji , Anatoli S. Kheifets , Meng Han , Kiyoshi Ueda , Hans Jakob Wörner

Time-delays in the photoionization of molecules are investigated. As compared to atomic ionization, the time-delays expected from molecular ionization present a much richer phenomenon, with a strong spatial dependence due to the anisotropic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 P. Hockett , E. Frumker , D. M. Villeneuve , P. B. Corkum

We apply a recently proposed theoretical concept and numerical approach to obtain time delays in extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photoionization of an electron in a short- or long-range potential. The results of our numerical simulations on a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jing Su , Hongcheng Ni , Andreas Becker , Agnieszka Jaron-Becker

Two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have recently started to merge. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser pulses, with duration on the femto- and sub-femtosecond time scales,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein

Chiral molecules exhibit enantiosensitive light-matter interactions, with photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) serving as a sensitive probe of molecular chirality through the asymmetry in the photoelectron wavepacket amplitude. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Zheming Zhou , Yang Li , Xu Zhang , Yueming Zhou , Peixiang Lu

Attosecond laser pulses open the door to resolve microscopic electron dynamics in time. Experiments performed include the decay of a core hole, the time-resolved measurement of photo ionization and electron tunneling. The processes…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2011-11-09 Ionut Georgescu , Ulf Saalmann , Jan M. Rost

Resonances leave prominent signatures in atomic and molecular ionization triggered by the absorption of single or multiple photons. These signatures reveal various aspects of the ionization process, characterizing both the initial and final…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Anatoli S. Kheifets

We present the first numerical simulation of the time delay in the photoionization of the simplest diatomic molecule H$_2^+$ as observed by attosecond streaking. We show that the strong variation of the Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith time delay as a…

Attosecond ionization time-delays at photoelectron energies above typically 10 eV are usually interpreted using the so called asymptotic approximation as a sum of the atomic or molecular delays with a universal laser-induced contribution.…

Ionization by relativistically intense short laser pulses is studied in the framework of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. Distinctive patterns are found in the energy probability distributions of photoelectrons. Except of the already…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

The coherent interaction with ultrashort light pulses is a powerful strategy for monitoring and controlling the dynamics of wave packets in all states of matter. As light presents an oscillation period of a few femtoseconds ($T=2.6$~fs in…

We propose a general technique to retrieve the information of dipole-forbidden resonances in the autoionizing region. In the simulation, a helium atom is pumped by an isolated attosecond pulse in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) combined with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wei-Chun Chu , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin