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Quantum calculations of tunneling in strong-field ionization (SFI) predict intricate momentum distributions due to sub-laser-cycle attosecond electron dynamics. These are obscured in most experiments by the dominance of inter-cycle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Nicholas Werby , Adi Natan , Ruaridh Forbes , Philip Bucksbaum

The photoelectron momentum distribution in the strong-field ionization has a variety of structures that reveal the complicated dynamics of this process. Recently, we identified a low-energy interference structure in the case of a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Lei Geng , Hao Liang , Liang-You Peng

We extend the semiclassical two-step model [Phys. Rev. A 94, 013415 (2016)] to include a multielectron polarization-induced dipole potential. Using this model we investigate the imprints of multielectron effects in the momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski , M. Lein , L. B. Madsen

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

This paper concerns the theory of non-recollisional ionization or detachment of atoms or ions by intense few-cycle pulses. It is shown that in certain conditions of pulse duration, peak intensity and carrier-envelope phase, the ionization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 C. C. Chirila , R. M. Potvliege

We analyze two-center interference effects in the yields of ionization of a dissociating hydrogen molecular ion by an ultrashort VUV laser pulse. To this end, we performed numerical simulations of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Picón , A. Bahabad , H. C. Kapteyn , M. M. Murnane , A. Becker

We consider interference effects within the linear description of the scattering of two-dimensional microcavity polaritons by an obstacle. The polariton wave may exhibit phase dislocations created by the interference of the incident and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-04 A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

We use orthogonally polarized two-colour (OTC) laser pulses to separate quantum paths in multiphoton ionization of Ar atoms. Our OTC pulses consist of 400~nm and 800~nm light at a relative intensity ratio of 10:1. We find a hitherto…

Within a semiclassical description of above-threshold ionization (ATI) we identify the interplay between intracycle and intercycle interferences. The former is imprinted as a modulation envelope on the discrete multiphoton peaks formed by…

Several correlation and interference effects in strong-field physics are investigated. We show that the interference of continuum wave packets can be the dominant mechanism of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in the over-the-barrier regime.…

We explore the laser-induced ionization dynamics of N2 and CO2 molecules subjected to a few-cycle, linearly polarized, 800\,nm laser pulse using effective two-dimensional single active electron time-dependent quantum simulations. We show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Michel Peters , Tung Nguyen-Dang , Eric Charron , Arne Keller , Osman Atabek

Diffuse interstellar clouds show large abundances of H_3^+ which can be maintained only by a high ionization rate of H_2. Cosmic rays are the dominant ionization mechanism in this environment, so the large ionization rate implies a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Nick Indriolo , Brian D. Fields , Benjamin J. McCall

The spectral line polarization produced by optically pumped atoms contains a wealth of information on the thermal and magnetic structure of a variety of astrophysical plasmas, including that of the solar atmosphere. A correct decoding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Ionization of an atom or molecule by a strong laser field produces sub-optical cycle wave packets whose control has given rise to attosecond science. The final states of the wave packets depend on ionization and deflection by the laser…

The ionization of H2 in intense laser pulses is studied by numerical integration of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a single-active-electron model including the vibrational motion. The electron kinetic-energy spectra in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefan Pieper , Manfred Lein

We present a study of multiphoton dissociative ionization from molecules. By solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for H$_2^+$ and projecting the solution onto double continuum scattering states, we observe the correlated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 C B Madsen , F Anis , L B Madsen , B D Esry

The strong coupling between intense laser fields and valence electrons in molecules causes a distortion of the potential energy hypersurfaces which determine the motion of nuclei in a molecule and influences possible reaction pathways. The…

Irradiation of solids with ultrashort pulses and laser processing in the mid-Infrared (mid-IR) spectral region is a yet predominantly unexplored field with a large potential for a wide range of applications. In this work, laser driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-27 George D. Tsibidis , Emmanuel Stratakis

We investigate the orientation dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from H$_2^+$ with different internuclear distances irradiated by intense laser fields both numerically and analytically. The calculated molecular HHG spectra…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanjun Chen , Jie Liu , Bambi Hu

Diatomic molecules (e.g., O$_2$) in intense laser field exhibit a peculiar suppressed ionization behavior compared to their companion atoms. Several physical models have been proposed to account for this suppression while no consensus has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Z. Lin , X. Y. Jia , C. Wang , Z. Hu , H. Kang , W. Quan , X. Y. Lai , X. Liu , J. Chen , B. Zeng , W. Chu , J. P. Yao , Y. Cheng , Z. Z. Xu