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Double electron ionisation process occurs when an intense laser pulse interacts with atoms or molecules. Exact {\it ab initio} numerical simulation of such a situation is extremely computer resources demanding, thus often one is forced to…

We present an exact single-electron picture that describes the correlated electron dynamics in strong laser fields. Our approach is based on the factorization of the electronic wavefunction as a product of a marginal and a conditional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Axel Schild , E. K. U. Gross

We study double ionization (DI) dynamics of vibrating HeH$^+$ versus its isotopic variant HeT$^+$ in strong laser fields numerically. Our simulations show that for both cases, these two electrons in DI prefer to release together along the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 S. Wang , R. H. Xu , W. Y. Li , X. Liu , W. Li , G. G. Xin , Y. J. Chen

We study double ionization of He driven by a near-single-cycle laser pulse at low intensities at 400 nm. Using a three-dimensional semiclassical model, we identify the pathways that prevail non-sequential double ionization (NSDI). We focus…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Georgios Petros Katsoulis , Agapi Emmanouilidou

We present a mixed quantum-classical approach to strong-field ionization - a semiclassical two-step model with quantum input. In this model the initial conditions for classical trajectories that simulate electron wave packet after…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski , M. Lein

The interaction of strong pulsed femtosecond laser field with atoms having three equivalent electrons in the outer shell ($p^3$ configuration, e.g. nitrogen) is studied via numerical integration of a time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation…

The influence of inner electrons on the ionization dynamics in strong laser fields is investigated in a wavelength regime where the inner electron dynamics is usually assumed to be negligible. The role of inner electrons is of particular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 J. Rapp , D. Bauer

We discuss the final stages of the simultaneous ionization of two or more electrons due to a strong laser pulse. An analysis of the classical dynamics suggests that the dominant pathway for non-sequential escape has the electrons escaping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bruno Eckhardt , Krzysztof Sacha

Quantum calculations of tunneling in strong-field ionization (SFI) predict intricate momentum distributions due to sub-laser-cycle attosecond electron dynamics. These are obscured in most experiments by the dominance of inter-cycle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Nicholas Werby , Adi Natan , Ruaridh Forbes , Philip Bucksbaum

Single ionization of H$_2$ molecules exposed to strong and short laser pulses is investigated by a semi-classical method. Three laser characteristics are considered: i) The carrier-wave frequency corresponds to wavelengths covering and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jean-Nicolas Vigneau , O. Atabek , Thanh-Tung Nguyen-Dang , Eric Charron

We investigate the photoionization dynamics of atoms subjected to intense, ultrashort laser pulses through the use of quantum trajectories. This method provides a unique and consistent framework for examining electron dynamics within a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Taylor Moon , Klaus Bartschat , Nicolas Douguet

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 tunnel ionization of an electron bounded by two delta potentials under the influence of a constant electric field is considered. The equations for the electron current density for two different initial states are obtained. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 P. A. Golovinski , A. A. Drobyshev

In the strong field molecular tunneling ionization theory of Tong et al. [Phys. Rev. A 66, 033402 (2002)], the ionization rate depends on the asymptotic wavefunction of the molecular orbital from which the electron is removed. The orbital…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Song-Feng Zhao , Cheng Jin , Anh-Thu Le , T. F. Jiang , C. D. Lin

We have studied strong-field enhanced dissociative ionization of D$_{2}$O in 40 fs, 800 nm laser pulses with focused intensities of $< 1 - 3 \times 10^{15}W/cm^2$ by resolving the charged fragment momenta with respect to the laser…

We present a novel approach to calculating strong field ionization dynamics of multielectron molecular targets. Adopting a multielectron wavefunction ansatz based on field-free ab initio neutral and ionic multielectron states, a set of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael Spanner , Serguei Patchkovskii

We provide a basis for the laser intensity dependence of the momentum distributions of electrons and ions arising from strong-field non-sequential double ionization (NSDI) at intensities in the range $I=1-6.5 \times 10^{14} W/cm^2$. To do…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Phay J. Ho

We demonstrate a general three-dimensional semiclassical model as a powerful technique for the study of correlated multi-electron escape in atoms driven by infrared laser pulses at intensities where electron-electron correlation prevails.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Agapi Emmanouilidou , Matthew Benjamin Peters , Georgios Petros Katsoulis

We investigate dissociative single and double ionization of HeH+ induced by intense femtosecond laser pulses. By employing a semi-classical model with nuclear trajectories moving on field-dressed surfaces and ionization events treated as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Lun Yue , Philipp Wustelt , A. Max Sayler , Gerhard G. Paulus , Stefanie Gräfe

The ionization of two-active-electron systems by intense laser fields is investigated theoretically. In comparison with time-dependent Hartree-Fock and exact two electron simulation, we show that the ionization rate is overestimated in SAE…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zengxiu Zhao , Jianmin Yuan