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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

We investigate signatures of anisotropy on the dynamics of time-resolved near-threshold molecular photoemission, through simulations on a one-dimension asymmetric model molecule. More precisely, we study the relationship between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Berkane M. , Desrier A. , Lévêque C. , Taïeb R. , Caillat J

Attosecond photoemission or photoionization delays are a unique probe of the structure and the electronic dynamics of matter. However, spectral congestion and spatial delocalization of valence electron wave functions set fundamental limits…

Photoionization from energetically distinct electronic states may have a relative time delay of tens of attoseconds. Here we demonstrate that pulses of optical vortices allow measuring such attoseconds delays from magnetic sublevels, even…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

We study laser-assisted photodetachment time delays by attosecond pulse trains from the closed-shell negative ions F- and Cl-. We investigate the separability of the delay into two contributions: (i) the Wigner-like delay associated with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Eva Lindroth , Jan Marcus Dahlström

We present the experimental observation of two-center interference in the ionization time delays of Kr2. Using attosecond electron-ion-coincidence spectroscopy, we simultaneously measure the photoionization delays of krypton monomer and…

Ji \etal [New J. Phys. {\bf 26}, 093014 (2024)] established a direct link between the photoionization cross section and the attosecond time delay near Cooper minima (CM) in the valence shells of noble-gas atoms. This link is based on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Adam J. C. Singor , Dmitry V. Fursa , Igor Bray , Anatoli S. Kheifets

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…

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

Streaked photoemission metrology allows the observation of an apparent relative time delay between the detection of photoelectrons from different initial electronic states. This relative delay is obtained by recording the photoelectron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Chang-hua Zhang , Uwe Thumm

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

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

We present calculations for attosecond atomic delays in photoionization of noble gas atoms based on full two-color two-photon Random-Phase Approximation with Exchange in both length and velocity gauge. Gauge invariant atomic delays are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jimmy Vinbladh , Jan Marcus Dahlström , Eva Lindroth

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

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

Focused laser fields with textured polarization on a sub-wavelength scale allow extracting information on electronic processes which are not directly accessible by homogeneous fields. Here, we consider photoionization in radially and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

The development of attosecond technology has enabled the real-time observation of coherent electron motion in atoms, molecules and condensed phases. Experimentally, it is now possible to generate laser pulses of durations of only a few tens…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 David Ayuso

We consider the two-photon ionization of Hydrogen-like atoms. We find an approximate expression of the long-range phase based on an asymptotic expansion of the continuum eigenfunctions within the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation.…

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

For a molecule, the two-center interference and the molecular scattering phase of the electron are important for almost all the processes that may occur in a laser field. In this study, we investigate their effects in the transfer of linear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Hao Liang , Mu-Xue Wang , Xiang-Ru Xiao , Qihuang Gong , Liang-You Peng