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Resonant two-photon ionization in a system consisting of two spatially well-separated atoms is studied. Due to two-center electron-electron correlations, the ionization may also proceed through photo-excitation of both atoms with subsequent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Müller , A. B. Voitkiv

The processes of electron excitation, capture, and ionization were investigated in proton collisions with atomic hydrogen in the initial $n=1$ and $n=2$ states at impact energies from 1 to 300 keV. The theoretical analysis is based on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Anthony C. K. Leung , Tom Kirchner

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

Ionization collisions have important consequences in many physical phenomena, and the mechanism that leads to ionization is not universal. Double differential cross sections (DDCSs) are often used to identify ionization mechanisms because…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 A. Plumadore , A. L. Harris

We present an efficient method for modeling the single and double ionization dynamics of the H$_2$ molecule in ultrashort intense laser fields. This method is based on a semi-analytical approach to calculate the time-dependent single and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jean-Nicolas Vigneau , Thanh-Tung Nguyen Dang , Eric Charron

Recent high resolution measurements of the momenta of two electrons emitted from Argon atoms in a strong laser field show a strong preference for the outgoing electrons to have similar momenta and to be ejected in the same direction along…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruno Eckhardt , Krzysztof Sacha

Ionization is one of the basic physical processes, occurring when charged particles penetrate atomic matter. When atoms are bombarded by very dense and compact beams of extreme relativistic electrons, two qualitatively new -- and very…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 S. Kim , C. Müller , A. B. Voitkiv

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

We report on a kinematically complete experiment on strong field double ionization of helium using laser pulses with a wavelength of 394\,nm and intensities of $3.5-5.7\times10^{14}\,W/cm^2$. Our experiment reaches the most complete level…

We introduce a unified and simplified theory of atomic double ionization. Our results show that at high laser intensities ($I \ge 10^{14}$ watts/cm$^2$) purely classical correlation is strong enough to account for all of the main features…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phay J. Ho , R. Panfili , S. L. Haan , J. H. Eberly

The dynamics of molecular electron excitation and ionisation is studied in real-time for ultra-short IR laser pulses of intensity I>10^{13} W/cm^{2}. The multi-electron molecule is modeled by a system of two active electrons moving in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. I. Pegarkov

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 study the electron-impact induced ionization of O$_{2}$ from threshold to 120 eV using the electron spectroscopy method. Our approach is simple in concept and embodies the ion source with a collision chamber and a mass spectrometer with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 R. A. Lomsadze , M. R. Gochitashvili , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , M. Schulz

Ionization-excitation of an atom induced by the absorption of a single photon in the presence of a neighbouring atom is studied. The latter is, first, resonantly photoexcited and, afterwards, transfers the excitation energy radiationlessly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 S. Kim , S. Steinhäuser , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

In this communication, we present the results of the Five-fold Differential Cross Section (5DCS) and Triple Differential Cross Section (TDCS) for the (e,2e) process on molecular hydrogen ($H_2$) by the plane wave and the twisted electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Nikita Dhankhar , Rakesh Choubisa

By performing an ensemble of molecular dynamics simulations, the model-dependent ionisation state is computed for strongly interacting systems self-consistently. This is accomplished through a free energy minimisation framework based on the…

The charge neutralization of an ion beam by electron injection is investigated using a two-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell code. The simulation results show that electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) can be robustly generated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Chaohui Lan , Igor D. Kaganovich

Double photoionization by a single photon is often discussed in terms of two contributing mechanisms, {\it knock-out} (two-step-one) and {\it shake-off} with the latter being a pure quantum effect. It is shown that a quasi-classical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tobias Schneider , Peter Leszek Chocian , Jan-Michael Rost

Double ionization (DI) is a fundamental process that despite its apparent simplicity provides rich opportunities for probing and controlling the electronic motion. Even for the simplest multielectron atom, helium, new DI mechanisms are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Henrik R. Larsson , David J. Tannor

The dynamics of the electron impact multiphoton ionization of a hydrogen atom in the presence of an intense laser field has been studied theoretically, with a view to comparing (qualitatively) the results with the recent kinematically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-02-11 S. Ghosh Deb , S. Roy , C. Sinha