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A theoretical study of the intense-field single ionization of molecular hydrogen or deuterium oriented either parallel or perpendicular to a linear polarized laser pulse (400 nm) is performed for different internuclear separations and pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz

We theoretically investigate the laser wavelength dependence of asymmetric dissociation of H$_2^+$. It is found that the electron localization in molecular dissociation is significantly manipulated by varying the wavelength of the driving…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-03 Kunlong Liu , Weiyi Hong , Qingbin Zhang , Peixiang Lu

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

We study ionization dynamics of aligned diatomic molecules N$_2$ in strong elliptical laser fields experimentally and theoretically. The alignment dependence of photoelectron momentum distributions (PMDs) of N$_2$ measured in experiments is…

A paradigm shift in the physics of laser-plasma interactions is approaching with the commissioning of multi-petawatt laser facilities world-wide. Radiation reaction processes will result in the onset of electron-positron pair cascades and,…

The strong coupling between intense laser fields and valence electrons in molecules causes a distortion of the potential energy hypersurfaces which determine the motion of nuclei in a molecule and influences possible reaction pathways. The…

In the present paper, we aim to constrain the properties of the ionisation region in a star from the oscillation frequency variation (a so-called glitch) caused by rapid structural variations in this very region. In particular, we seek to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Pierre S. Houdayer , Daniel R. Reese , Marie-Jo Goupil

The resources needed for Particle in Cell simulations of Laser Wakefield Acceleration can be greatly reduced in many cases of interest using an envelope model. However, the inclusion of tunneling ionization in this time averaged treatment…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Francesco Massimo , Arnaud Beck , Julien Dérouillat , Imen Zemzemi , Arnd Specka

We present measurements of integrated electron energies produced by above-threshold ionization (ATI) of neon in a laser field with intensity exceeding 10$^{20}$ W/cm$^{2}$. We observe electrons with energy exceeding 10 MeV ejected in the…

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

We propose an optical scheme for generating entanglement between co-trapped identical or dissimilar alkaline earth atomic ions ($^{40}\text{Ca}^+$, $^{88}\text{Sr}^+$, $^{138}\text{Ba}^+$, $^{226}\text{Ra}^+$) which exhibits fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Brian C. Sawyer , Kenton R. Brown

In the present paper, we develop a semiclassical quasi-static model accounting for molecular double ionization in an intense laser pulse. With this model, we achieve insight into the dynamics of two highly-correlated valence electrons under…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-13 Di-Fa Ye , Jing Chen , Jie Liu

Double photo-electron momentum spectra of the Helium atom are calculated \textit{ab initio} at extreme ultra-violet and near infrared wavelengths. At short wavelengths two-photon double ionization yields, two-electron energy spectra, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Alejandro Zielinski , Vinay Pramod Majety , Armin Scrinzi

Focused ion beams are indispensable tools in the semiconductor industry because of their ability to image and modify structures at the nanometer length scale. Here we report on performance predictions of a new type of focused ion beam based…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 G. ten Haaf , S. H. W. Wouters , S. B. van der Geer , E. J. D. Vredenbregt , P. H. A. Mutsaers

A photoelectron forced to pass through two atomic energy levels before receding from the residual ion shows interference fringes in its angular distribution as manifestation of a two-slit-type interference experiment in wave-vector space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Jonas Wätzel , Andrew James Murray , Jamal Berakdar

Laser-induced electron diffraction is an evolving tabletop method, which aims to image ultrafast structural changes in gas-phase polyatomic molecules with sub-{\AA}ngstr\"om spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution. Here, we provide the…

A long laser beam propagating through an underdense plasma produces a positively charged ion channel by expelling plasma electrons in the transverse direction. We consider the dynamics of a test electron in a resulting two-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexey V. Arefiev , Vladimir N. Khudik , Marius Schollmeier

Diffuse interstellar clouds show large abundances of H_3^+ which can be maintained only by a high ionization rate of H_2. Cosmic rays are the dominant ionization mechanism in this environment, so the large ionization rate implies a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Nick Indriolo , Brian D. Fields , Benjamin J. McCall

We present experimental evidence supported by simulations of a relativistic ionization wave launched into surrounding gas by the sheath field of a plasma filament with high energy electrons. Such filament is created by irradiating a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. W. McCormick , A. V. Arefiev , H. J. Quevedo , R. D. Bengtson , T. Ditmire

In this work, visible and extreme ultraviolet spectra of W7+ are measured using the high-temperature superconducting electron-beam ion trap (EBIT) at the Shanghai EBIT Laboratory under extremely low-energy conditions (lower than the nominal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Q. Lu , J. He , H. Tian , M. Li , Y. Yang , K. Yao , C. Chen , J. Xiao , J. G. Li , B. Tu , Y. Zou