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We develop a time-dependent theory to investigate electron dynamics and photoionization processes of diatomic molecules interacting with strong laser fields including electron-electron correlation effects. We combine the recently formulated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Henrik R. Larsson , Sebastian Bauch , Lasse Kragh Sørensen , Michael Bonitz

Owing to its numerical simplicity, a two-dimensional two-electron model atom, with each electron moving in one direction, is an ideal system to study non-perturbatively a fully correlated atom exposed to a laser field. Frequently made…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Bauer

In strong field laser physics it is a common practice to use the high-order harmonic cutoff to estimate the laser intensity of the pulse that generates the harmonic radiation. Based on the semiclassical arguments it is possible to find a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Shaaran , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

Double ionization in intense laser fields can comprise electron correlations, which manifest in the non-independent emission of two electrons from an atom or molecule. However, experimental methods that directly access the electron emission…

In order to elucidate the correlated motion of atomic electrons, we investigate the attosecond-scale dynamics of their entanglement arising due to nonsequential ionization driven by a strong, linearly-polarized laser field. The calculation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Daniel Younis , Songbo Xie , Joseph H. Eberly

Two-color laser fields offer significantly enhanced control over electron excitation dynamics under ultrashort intense laser pulses compared to monochromatic fields. However, their strong nonlinearity necessitates computationally expensive…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 Mizuki Tani , Kenichi L. Ishikawa , Tomohito Otobe

Double ionization processes triggered by intense linearly polarized laser fields have revealed the paramount role of electron-electron collisions. It has been shown that the correlated dynamics of such electronic collisions can be modeled…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Francois Mauger , Cristel Chandre , Turgay Uzer

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneities of the local electric field and the confinement of the electron motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , Srdjan S. Acimovic , T. Shaaran , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

We present theoretical investigations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the interaction of noble gases with localized surface plasmons. These plasmonic fields are produced when a metal nanoparticle is subject to a…

Using a three-dimensional quasiclassical technique we explore molecular double ionization by a linearly polarized, infrared (800 nm) and ultrashort (6 fs) laser pulse. We first focus on intensities corresponding to the tunneling regime and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Emmanouilidou , A. Staudte

We theoretically investigate the mechanism of enhanced ionization in two-electron molecules by analyzing Bohmian trajectories for a one-dimensional H2 in an intense laser field. We identify both types of ionizing trajectories corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ryohto Sawada , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

Strong-field enhanced ionization (EI) is a phenomenon in which stretching of interatomic bonds into a distorted molecular geometry leads to an increase in the tunneling ionization rate driven by a strong field. Isolating the momentum…

A general method for solving numerically the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, that is based on the Suzuki-Trotter scheme with the split-step Fourier approach, is introduced. The method relies on a Hamiltonian decomposition, where…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 M. C. Suster , J. Derlikiewicz , K. Krajewska , F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

We perform a systematic analysis of how nonsequential double ionization in intense, linearly polarized laser fields is influenced by the initial states in which both electrons are bound, and by the residual ionic potential. We assume that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , M. Lewenstein

We revisit strong-field ionization of aligned O$_2$, CO$_2$, and CS$_2$ molecules in light of recent advances in the field of strong-field physics, in particular the inclusion of multielectron polarization in the numerical solution of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 M. Abu-samha , Lars Bojer Madsen

In the first part of this paper, the different distinguishable pathways and regions of the single and sequential double ionization are determined and discussed. It is shown that there are two distinguishable pathways for the single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Firoozeh Sami , Mohsen Vafaee , Babak Shokri

At intensities below-the-recollision threshold, we show that re-collision-induced excitation with one electron escaping fast after re-collision and the other electron escaping with a time delay via a Coulomb slingshot motion is one of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 G. P. Katsoulis , A. Hadjipittas , B. Bergues , M. F. Kling , A. Emmanouilidou

We present a theoretical study of the wave packet dynamics of the H$_2^+$ molecular ion in plasmon-enhanced laser fields. Such fields may be produced, for instance, when metallic nano-structures are illuminated by a laser pulse of moderated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 I. Yavuz , M. F. Ciappina , A. Chacón , Z. Altun , M. Lewenstein

We investigate the dynamics of electron-electron recollisions in the double ionization of atoms in strong laser fields. The statistics of recollisions can be reformulated in terms of an area-preserving map from the observation that the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-06-30 Francois Mauger , Cristel Chandre , Turgay Uzer