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Gravitational time delays, observed in strong lens systems where the variable background source is multiply-imaged by a massive galaxy in the foreground, provide direct measurements of cosmological distance that are very complementary to…

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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…

Wigner-Smith (WS) time delay concepts have been used extensively in quantum mechanics to characterize delays experienced by particles interacting with a potential well. This paper formally extends WS time delay theory to Maxwell's equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Utkarsh R. Patel , Eric Michielssen

Recent advances in strong x-ray laser techniques enable the study of nonlinear multiphoton ionization in extreme high-frequency fields. Although the stabilization regime in such fields is theoretically established, its modified properties…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aleksandr V. Boitsov , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

A new method to examine the time scale of particle emission from hot nuclei is explored. Excited projectile-like and target-like fragments decay as they separate following a peripheral heavy-ion collision. Their mutual Coulomb influence…

We show that time ordering underlying time-dependent quantum dynamics is a physical observable accessible by attosecond streaking. We demonstrate the extraction of time ordering for the prototypical case of time-resolved two-photon double…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Renate Pazourek , Stefan Nagele , Joachim Burgdörfer

The model of weak measurements is applied to various problems, related to the time problem in quantum mechanics. The review and generalization of the theoretical analysis of the time problem in quantum mechanics based on the concept of weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

The finite speed of light of pulses implies propagation delays between the generation of light, the interaction with different elements along its path and the final detection at the output of networks and interferometers. We show that it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Victor Rueskov Christiansen , Klaus Mølmer

Hot, dense plasmas exhibit screened Coulomb interactions, resulting from the collective effects of correlated many-particle interactions. In the lowest particle correlation order (pair-wise correlations), the interaction between charged…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 R. K. Janev , Song Bin Zhang , Jian Guo Wang

Tunneling ionization is characterized by a negative time delay, observed asymptotically as a specific shift of the photoelectron momentum distribution, which is caused by the interference of the sub-barrier recolliding and direct ionization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Michael Klaiber , Daniel Bakucz Canário , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We present fully ab initio simulations of attosecond streaking for ionization of helium accompanied by shake-up of the second electron. This process represents a prototypical case for strongly correlated electron dynamics on the attosecond…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Renate Pazourek , Stefan Nagele , Johannes Feist , Joachim Burgdörfer

Considering the complex reflection amplitude R=|R|exp(i{\theta}) of a light wave, real delay time {\tau}_r (i.e., sojourn or Wigner delay time), which is the energy derivative of the real phase ({\tau}_r =d{\theta}/cdk), and complex delay…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-03 Prabhakar Pradhan , Peeyush Sahay , Huda M. Almabadi

Aiming at the investigation of above-threshold ionization in super-strong laser fields with highly charged ions, we develop a Coulomb-corrected strong field approximation (SFA). The influence of the Coulomb potential of the atomic core on…

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

Quantum time dilation occurs when a clock moves in a superposition of relativistic momentum wave packets. We utilize the lifetime of an excited hydrogen-like atom as a clock to demonstrate how quantum time dilation manifests in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Piotr T. Grochowski , Alexander R. H. Smith , Andrzej Dragan , Kacper Dębski

We develop a novel technique for modeling of atomic and molecular ionization in superposition of XUV and IR fields with characteristics typical for attosecond streaking and RABBITT experiments. The method is based on solving the…

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If the gravitational lens is surrounded by non-homoheneous plasma, in addition to the vacuum gravitational deflection, chromatic refraction occurs. Also, the speed of signal propagation decreases compared to vacuum. In this article, we…

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To shorten the duration of x-ray pulses, we present a nonlinear optical technique using atoms with core-hole vacancies (core-hole atoms) generated by inner-shell photoionization. The weak Coulomb screening in the core-hole atoms results in…

We revisit the time-resolved photoemission in neon atoms as probed by attosecond streaking. We calculate streaking time shifts for the emission of 2p and 2s electrons and compare the relative delay as measured in a recent experiment by…

The R-Matrix incorporating Time (RMT) method is a new method for solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for multi-electron atomic systems exposed to intense short-pulse laser light. We have employed the RMT method to investigate…

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