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We describe in detail how attosecond delays in laser-assisted photoionization can be computed using perturbation theory based on two-photon matrix elements. Special emphasis is laid on above-threshold ionization, where the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. M. Dahlström , E. Lindroth

A Kohn-Sham time-dependent local-density-functional scheme is utilized to predict attosecond time delays of xenon 4d photoionization that involves the 4d giant dipole resonance and Cooper minimum. The fundamental effect of electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Maia Magrakvelidze , Mohamed El-Amine Madjet , Himadri S. Chakraborty

We study the temporal aspects of laser-assisted extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photoionization using attosecond pulses of harmonic radiation. The aim of this paper is to establish the general form of the phase of the relevant transition…

Attosecond streaking of atomic photoemission holds the promise to provide unprecedented information on the release time of the photoelectron. We show that attosecond streaking phase shifts indeed contain timing (or spectral phase)…

We present measurements of single-photon ionization time delays between valence electrons of argon and neon using a coincidence detection technique that allows for the simultaneous measurement of both species under identical conditions.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Sabbar , S. Heuser , R. Boge , M. Lucchini , T. Carette , E. Lindroth , L. Gallmann , C. Cirelli , U. Keller

Several recent attoclock experiments have investigated the fundamental question of a quantum mechanically induced time delay in tunneling ionization via extremely precise photoelectron momentum spectroscopy. The interpretations of those…

Using a spectrally resolved electron interferometry technique, we measure photoionization time delays between the $3s$ and $3p$ subshells of argon over a large 34-eV energy range covering the Cooper minima in both subshells. The observed…

Extracting single photoionization time delays associated with atomic (or molecular) species from attosecond time scale two-photon experiments usually relies on the theoretical description of continuum-continuum transitions. The available…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 D. I. R. Boll , L. Martini , O. A. Fojón

Upon absorbing a photon, the ionized electron sails through the target force field in attoseconds to reach free space. This navigation probes details of the potential landscape that get imprinted into the phase of the ionization amplitude.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Sajad Azizi , Mohamed El-Amine Madjet , Zheng Li , Jan M. Rost , Himadri S. Chakraborty

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…

We use the non-relativistic random phase approximation with exchange to perform calculations of valence shell photoionization of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe from their respective thresholds to photon energy of 200 eV. The energy derivative of the…

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

We have implemented the gedanken experiment of an individual atom scattering a wave packet of near-resonant light, and measured the associated Wigner time-delay as a function of the frequency of the light. In our apparatus the atom behaves…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 R. Bourgain , J. Pellegrino , Y. R. P. Sortais , A. Browaeys

A technique for measuring photoionization time delays with attosecond precision is combined with calculations of photoionization matrix elements to demonstrate how multi-electron dynamics affect photoionization time delays in carbon…

The classical field approximation is widely used to better understand the predictions of ultra-light dark matter. Here, we use the truncated Wigner approximation method to test the classical field approximation of ultra-light dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Andrew Eberhardt , Alvaro Zamora , Michael Kopp , Tom Abel

The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous, but exhibits attosecond delays that can reveal complex molecular dynamics. Sub-femtosecond duration light pulses provide the requisite tools to resolve the dynamics of photoionization.…

In scattering theory, the Wigner-Smith time delay, calculated through a phaseshift derivative or its multichannel generalization, has been demonstrated to measure the amount of delay or advance experienced by colliding particles during…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Karim I. Elghazawy , Chris H. Greene

Photoionisation is a process where absorption of one or several photons liberates an electron and creates a hole in a quantum system, such as an atom or a molecule. Is it faster to remove an electron using one or many photons, and how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Jivesh Kaushal , Felipe Morales , Lisa Torlina , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Prior to recombination photons, electrons, and atomic nuclei rapidly scattered and behaved, almost, like a single tightly-coupled photon-baryon plasma. We investigate here the accuracy of the tight-coupling approximation commonly used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Kris Sigurdson

The generation of a streaking spectrogram is based on energy absorption from the streaking laser. Investigating this absorption we show rigorously under which condition the measured time shift is independent of properties of the streaking…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Ulf Saalmann , Jan M Rost

Photoionization as a half-scattering process is not instantaneous. Usually, time delays in photoionization are of the order of few tens of attoseconds (1 as = 10$^{-18}$ s). While going from a single atom to a nano-object, one can expect…