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We study strong field molecular ionization using few- (four to ten) cycle laser pulses. Employing a supercontinuum light source, we are able to tune the optical laser wavelength (photon energy) over a range of about $\sim$200 nm (500 meV).…

Electronic processes within atoms and molecules reside on the timescale of attoseconds. Recent advances in the laser-based pump-probe interrogation techniques have made possible the temporal resolution of ultrafast electronic processes on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongzhe Ma , Hongcheng Ni , Jian Wu

The electron dynamics in the classically forbidden region during relativistic tunnel-ionization is investigated. The classical forbidden region in the relativistic regime is identified by defining a gauge invariant total energy operator.…

Using a three-dimensional quasiclassical technique we explore molecular double ionization by a linearly polarized, infrared (800~nm) 27~fs laser pulse. For intensities ranging from the tunneling to the over-the-barrier regime, we identify…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-01-27 A. Emmanouilidou , D. S. Tchitchekova

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Xiaodan Mao , Hongcheng Ni , Xiaochun Gong , Joachim Burgdörfer , Jian Wu

The measurement of tunneling times in strong-field ionization has been the topic of much controversy in recent years, with the attoclock and Larmor clock being two of the main contenders for correctly reproducing these times. By expressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Pablo Martin Maier , Serguei Patchkovskii , Mikhail Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

Signatures of the Coulomb corrections in the photoelectron momentum distribution during laser-induced ionization of atoms or ions in tunneling and multiphoton regimes are investigated analytically in the case of an one-dimensional problem.…

The role of the Coulomb potential of the atomic core for creation of caustics in the photoelectron momentum distribution for tunneling ionization in a linearly polarized strong laser field, usually termed as Coulomb focusing, is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Jiří Daněk , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We propose a method to study the tunneling process by analyzing the time-dependent ionization yield in circularly polarized laser. A numerical calculation shows that for an atom exposed to a long laser pulse, if its initial electronic state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 MingHu Yuan , PeiPei Xin , TianShu Chu , HongPing Liu

Strong-field ionization and rescattering beyond the long-wavelength limit of the dipole approximation is studied with elliptically polarized mid-IR pulses. We have measured the full three-dimensional photoelectron momentum distributions (3D…

A new pathway of strong laser field induced ionization of an atom is identified which is based on recollisions under the tunneling barrier. With an amended strong field approximation, the interference of the direct and the under-the-barrier…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The last decade has seen an intense renewed debate on tunnelling time, both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective. Here, we review recent developments and new insights in the field of strong-field tunnel ionization related to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 C. Hofmann , A. S. Landsman , U. Keller

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

We analyze, quantum mechanically, the dynamics of ionization with a strong, circularly polarized, laser field. We show that the main source for non-adiabatic effects is connected to an effective barrier lowering due to the laser frequency.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk

Electrons in atoms and molecules can not react immediately to the action of intense laser field. A time lag (about 100 attoseconds) between instants of the field maximum and the ionization-rate maximum emerges. This lag characterizes the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 J. Y. Che , C. Chen , S. Wang , G. G. Xin , Y. J. Chen

We investigate the interwoven dynamic evolutions of neutral nitrogen molecules together with nitrogen ions created through transient tunnel ionization in an intense laser field. By treating the molecules as open quantum systems, it is found…

We present a theory illuminating the cross-over from strong-field tunnelling ionization to weak-field multiphoton ionization in the interaction of a classical laser field with a hydrogen atom. A simple formula is derived in which the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Michael Klaiber , John S Briggs

We investigate the ionization dynamics of atoms irradiated by an intense laser field using a semiclassical model that includes magnetic Lorentz force in the rescattering process. We find that, the electrons tunneled with different initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 J. F. Tao , Q. Z. Xia , J. Cai , L. B. Fu , J. Liu

We perform time-dependent calculations of strong-field ionization of He by elliptically polarized light in configuration of recent attoclock measurements of Boge {\em et al} [PRL {\bf 111}, 103003 (2013)]. By solving a 3D time-dependent…

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

Previous attoclock experiments measuring the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) via strong-field ionization in an elliptically polarized laser field have shown anomalously large offset angles in the nonadiabatic regime with large…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Q. Z. Lv , M. Klaiber , P. -L. He , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel