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Chiral light-matter interactions have been investigated for two centuries, leading to the discovery of many chiroptical processes used for discrimination of enantiomers. Whereas most chiroptical effects result from a response of bound…

We investigate the effect of dynamic electron correlation on high-harmonic generation in helium atoms using intense visible light (\lambda=390nm). Two complementary approaches are used which account for correlation in an approximate manner:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 G. A. McKenna , R. Nepstad , J. F. McCann , D. Dundas

The ionization of an atom by a high-frequency intense laser pulse, where the energy of a single-photon is sufficient to ionize the system, is investigated from first principles. It is shown that as a consequence of an AC Stark effect in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Philipp V Demekhin , Lorenz S Cederbaum

Attosecond pump-probe ionization process can be used to prepare atomic ions in the coherent superposition of states with opposite parity. The multiphoton shake-up ionization of Helium, in particular, generates ions with same principal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Saad Mehmood , Eva Lindroth , Luca Argenti

The photoionization of a helium atom by short intense laser pulses is studied theoretically in the vicinity of the $2s2p\,^1P$ doubly-excited state with the intention to investigate the impact of the intensity and duration of the exciting…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Anton N. Artemyev , Lorenz S. Cederbaum , Philipp V. Demekhin

The ionization of atoms with sequences of attosecond pulses gives rise to excited ionic states that are entangled with the emitted photoelectron. Still, the ionic ensemble preserves some coherence that can be controlled through the laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Saad Mehmood , Eva Lindroth , Luca Argenti

We study atomic autoionization processes in the time domain. With the emerging attosecond extreme vacuum ultraviolet and soft x-ray pulses, we first address how to characterize the time evolution of the decay of a discrete state into a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-25 W. -C. Chu , C. D. Lin

The evolution of electron wavepackets determines the course of many physical and chemical phenomena and attosecond spectroscopy aims to measure and control such dynamics in real-time. Here, we investigate radial electron wavepacket motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Niranjan Shivaram , Xiao-Min Tong , Henry Timmers , Arvinder Sandhu

We present an \emph{ab-initio} approach for computing the photoionization spectrum near autoionization resonances in multi-electron systems. While traditional (Hermitian) theories typically require computing the continuum states, which are…

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

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

As first demonstrated by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, it is possible to observe interference between independent light sources by measuring correlations in their intensities rather than their amplitudes. In this work, we apply this concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 G. S. Thekkadath , D. England , F. Bouchard , Y. Zhang , M. S. Kim , B. Sussman

We describe a numerical method that simulates the interaction of the helium atom with sequences of femtosecond and attosecond light pulses. The method, which is based on the close-coupling expansion of the electronic configuration space in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Luca Argenti , Eva Lindroth

We compare numerical methods for solving the radiative transfer equation in the context of the photoionization of intergalactic gaseous hydrogen and helium by a central radiating source. Direct integration of the radiative transfer equation…

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We calculate the photoionization with excitation-to photoionization ratios for atomic helium and heliumlike ions at intermediate values of the photon energies. The final state interactions between the electrons are included in the lowest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. Drukarev , E. Z. Liverts , M. Ya. Amusia , R. Krivec , V. B. Mandelzweig

We study the photoionization and autoionization of Helium atom subject to ultrashort laser pulses by using a Feshbach formalism in the time domain. We solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in terms of a configuration interaction…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 C. M. Granados-Castro , J. L. Sanz-Vicario

Free electron lasers (FELs) offer the unprecedented capability to study reaction dynamics and image the structure of complex systems. When multiple photons are absorbed in complex systems, a plasma-like state is formed where many atoms are…

We propose a general technique to retrieve the information of dipole-forbidden resonances in the autoionizing region. In the simulation, a helium atom is pumped by an isolated attosecond pulse in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) combined with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wei-Chun Chu , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin

We present a fully {\it ab initio}, non-perturbative, time-dependent approach to describe single and double ionization of helium by proton and antiproton impact. A flexible and accurate finite-element discrete-variable-representation is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Xiaoxu Guan , Klaus Bartschat

We investigate the possibility to monitor the dynamics of autoionizing states in real time and control the yields of different ionization channels in helium by simulating XUV-pump IR-probe experiments focused on the N=2 threshold. The XUV…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Luca Argenti , Eva Lindroth