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The elaborate energy and momentum spectra of ionized electrons from atoms in laser fields suggest that the ionization dynamics described by tunneling theory should be modified. Although many efforts have been done within semiclassical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Long Xu , Libin Fu

Precise control of the electron phase accumulated during its sub-cycle motion within intense laser fields is essential in strong-field physics, yet remains mostly indirect and complicated so far. In this Letter, we develop a novel approach…

Tunneling of a particle through a potential barrier remains one of the most remarkable quantum phenomena. Owing to advances in laser technology, electric fields comparable to those electrons experience in atoms are readily generated and…

A model based on the strong-field and Born-Oppenheimer approximations qualitatively describes the distribution over vibrational states formed in a diatomic molecular ion following ionization of the neutral molecule by intense laser pulses.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kim Kjeldsen , Lars Bojer Madsen

We explore the laser-induced ionization dynamics of N2 and CO2 molecules subjected to a few-cycle, linearly polarized, 800\,nm laser pulse using effective two-dimensional single active electron time-dependent quantum simulations. We show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Michel Peters , Tung Nguyen-Dang , Eric Charron , Arne Keller , Osman Atabek

We study non-classical pathways and quantum interference in enhanced ionisation of diatomic molecules in strong laser fields using machine learning techniques. Quantum interference provides a bridge, which facilitates intramolecular…

The alignment- and internuclear-distance dependent ionization of H$_2$ exposed to intense, ultrashort laser fields is studied by solving the time-dependent two-electron Schr\"odinger equation. In the regime of perturbative few-photon…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Johann Förster , Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz

We analyze, quantum mechanically, the dynamics of ionization with a strong, circularly polarized, laser field. We show that the main source for non-adiabatic effects is connected to an effective barrier lowering due to the laser frequency.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk

In this paper a 4-component Dirac theory of ionization of hydrogen molecular ion in a super-intense laser field is developed. Simple analytic expressions for the spin specific as well as the total ionization currents emitted from the ground…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. H. M. Faisal

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

We present a simple and general coherence model for multiorbital tunnel ionization of molecules, which we incorporate into our previously developed density matrix approach for sequential double ionization [Yuen and Lin, Phys. Rev. A 106,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 C. H. Yuen , C. D. Lin

Ionization of an atom or molecule presents surprising richness beyond our current understanding: strong-field ionization with low-frequency fields recently revealed unexpected kinetic energy structures (1, 2). A solid grasp on electron…

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

We investigate the time-evolution of quantum entanglement between an electron, liberated by a strong few-cycle laser pulse, and its parent ion-core. Since the standard procedure is numerically prohibitive in this case, we propose a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Szilárd Majorosi , Mihály G. Benedict , Attila Czirják

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

We consider a system of laser-cooled ions in a linear harmonic trap and study the phenomenon of squeezing exchange between their internal and motional degrees of freedom. An interesting relation between the quantum noise reduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ramon , C. Brif , A. Mann

Study on ionization process of molecules in an intense infrared laser field is of paramount interest in strong-field physics and constitutes the foundation of imaging of molecular valence orbitals and attosecond science. We show measurement…

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

Heterogeneous nucleation on catalytic surfaces plunged into a fluid is described through a stochastic model. To generate this non-equilibrium process we assume that the turn on of a electrostatic potential triggers a complex dynamics that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. T. Dajello , I. Mozolevski , Z. G. S. Kipervaser

Relativistic strong-field ionization of hydrogen-like atoms or ions in a constant crossed electromagnetic field is studied. The transition amplitude is formulated within the strong-field approximation in G\"oppert-Mayer gauge, with initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 A. Eckey , M. Klaiber , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller