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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

Nondipole effects in the atomic dynamic interference are investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation~(TDSE) of hydrogen. It is found that the inclusion of nondipole corrections in the TDSE can induce…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Mu-Xue Wang , Hao Liang , Xiang-Ru Xiao , Si-Ge Chen , Wei-Chao Jiang , Liang-You Peng

The interference of matter waves is one of the intriguing features of quantum mechanics that has impressed researchers and laymen since it was first suggested almost a century ago. Nowadays, attosecond science tools allow us to utilize it…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Kasra Amini , Alexis Chacón , Sebastian Eckart , Benjamin Fetić , Matthias Kübel

A three-dimensional semiclassical model is used to study double ionization of Ar when driven by a near-infrared and near-single-cycle laser pulse for intensities ranging from 0.85$\times$10$^{14}$ W/cm$^{2}$ to 5$\times$10$^{14}$…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. Chen , M. Kübel , B. Bergues , M. F. Kling , A. Emmanouilidou

In a recent experiment by Eichmann et al., polarization-sensitive measurements of the fluorescence from two four-level ions driven by a linearly polarized laser were made. Depending on the polarization chosen, different degrees of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Wong , S. M. Tan , M. J. Collett , D. F. Walls

We study single-photon ionization of aligned H$_2^+$ in a high-frequency low-intensity laser field. We focus on the case where the laser frequency is not far larger than the ionization potential of the target. The calculated photoelectron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 F. B. Zhang , J. Y. Che , W. Y. Li , C. Chen , Y. J. Chen

We investigated the two-dimensional electron momentum distributions of atomic negative ions in an intense laser field by solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation (TDSE) and using the first- and 2nd-order strong-field approximations…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 XiaoXin Zhou , Zhangjin Chen , Toru Morishita , Anh-Thu Le , C. D. Lin

The tunnelling of an electron through a suppressed atomic potential followed by its motion in the continuum, is the fundamental mechanism underlying strong-field laser-atom/molecule interactions. Due to its quantum nature, the interaction…

Multipath holographic interference in strong-field quantum tunnel ionization is key to revealing sub-Angstrom attosecond dynamics for molecular movies. This critical sub-cycle motion is often obscured by longer time-scale effects such as…

We consider correlation-assisted tunnel ionization of a small molecule by an intense low-frequency laser pulse. In this mechanism, the departing electron excites the state of the ion via a Coulomb interaction. We show that the angular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Emilio Pisanty , Misha Ivanov

We present a theoretical study of ionization of the hydrogen atom due to an XUV pulse in the presence of an IR laser with both fields linearly polarized in the same direction. In particular, we study the energy distribution of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. A. Gramajo , R. Della Picca , D. G. Arbó

We report on the observation of subcycle interferences of electron wave packets released during the strong field ionization of H$_2$ with cycle-shaped two-color laser fields. With a reaction microscope, channel-resolved photoelectron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Xinhua Xie , Stefan Roither , Daniil Kartashov , Li Zhang , Andrius Baltuška , Markus Kitzler

We investigate how short and long electron trajectory contributions to high harmonic emission and their interferences give access to intra-molecular dynamics. In the case of unaligned molecules, we show experimental evidences that the long…

For the description of nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) of rare-gas atoms by a strong linearly polarized laser field, the quantum-mechanical $S$-matrix diagram that incorporates rescattering impact ionization is evaluated in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , X. Liu , H. Schomerus , W. Becker

The tunneling dynamics in relativistic strong-field ionization is investigated with the aim to develop an intuitive picture for the relativistic tunneling regime. We demonstrate that the tunneling picture applies also in the relativistic…

We consider tunnel ionization of an atom or molecule in a strong field within an analytical treatment of the R-matrix method, in which an imaginary boundary is set up inside the classically forbidden region that acts as a source of ionized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Emilio Pisanty

In a double-slit experiment with a bipartite system, the visibility of interference fringes depends on the availability of which-way information. Here, we report the formation of a Bell-like state of photoelectron and residual ion in the…

We investigate the influence of sub-cycle laser pulses on holographic and non-holographic intracycle interferences by analyzing the photoelectron momentum distributions of helium using TDSE simulations supported by classical trajectory…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-05 Rambabu Rajpoot , Eiji J. Takahashi

We investigate electron momentum distributions from single ionization of Ar by two orthogonally polarized laser pulses of different color. The two-color scheme is used to experimentally control the interference between electron wave packets…

We use a Wigner distribution-like function based on the strong field approximation theory to obtain the time-energy distributions and the ionization time distributions of electrons ionized by an XUV pulse alone and in the presence of an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 L. Guo , Y. Jia , M. Q. Liu , X. Y. Jia , S. L. Hu , R. H. Lu , S. S. Han , J. Chen