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Rydberg atoms are in the focus of intense research due to the peculiar properties which make them interesting candidates for quantum optics and quantum information applications. In this work we study the ionization of Rydberg atoms due to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 K. L. Romans , A. H. N. C. De Silva , B. P. Acharya , K. Foster , O. Russ , D. Fischer

The impact of atomic excited states is investigated via a detailed model of laser-cluster interactions, which is applied to rare gas clusters in intense femtosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV). This demonstrates the potential…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Edward Ackad , Nicolas Bigaouette , Lora Ramunno

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 observe and control a molecular vibrational wave packet in an electronically excited state of the neutral hydrogen molecule. In an extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) transient-absorption experiment we launch a vibrational wave packet in the $D…

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) in potassium atom is investigated within the strong coupling regime using photoelectron momentum imaging techniques. The kinetic energy distribution of the ionized electrons reveals the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Wankai Li , Yixuan Wang , Xing Li , Tao Yang , Dongdong Zhang , Dajun Ding

Shape resonances in photoionization of atoms and molecules arise from a particular geometry of the ionic potential which traps the receding photoelectron in a quasi-bound state in a particular partial wave. This mechanism allows us to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Anatoli S. Kheifets , Stephen Catsamas

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption (TA) and transient reflectivity (TR) spectroscopies enable element-specific insights into attosecond-timescale processes in solids. XUV transient grating spectroscopy (TGS) is an emerging tool…

Measuring the time it takes to remove an electron from an atom or molecule during photoionization using newly developed attosecond spectroscopies has been a focus of many recent experiments. However, the outcome of such measurement depends…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lisa Torlina , Olga Smirnova

Phase-retrieval from coded diffraction patterns (CDP) is important to X-ray crystallography, diffraction tomography and astronomical imaging, yet remains a hard, non-convex inverse problem. We show that CDP recovery can be reformulated…

We experimentally demonstrate how to solve the phase problem of diffraction using multi-wave interference with standard diffraction experimental setups without the need for taking any auxiliary data. In particular, we show that the phases…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 M. Fally , Y. Tomita , A. Fimia , R. F. Madrigal , J. Guo , J. Kohlbrecher , J. Klepp

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…

We discuss double ionization of atoms in strong laser pulses using a reduced dimensionality model. Following the insights obtained from an analysis of the classical mechanics of the process, we confine each electron to move along the lines…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki , Krzysztof Sacha , Bruno Eckhardt , Jakub Zakrzewski

Intense X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) can rapidly excite matter, leaving it in inherently unstable states that decay on femtosecond timescales. As the relaxation occurs primarily via Auger emission, excited state observations are…

We present transient absorption spectra of an extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulse train in helium dressed by an 800 nm laser field with intensity ranging from $2\times10^{12}$ W/cm$^2$ to $2\times10^{14}$ W/cm$^2$. The energy range probed…

We investigate an angular dependence of the photoemission time delay in helium as measured by the RABBITT (Reconstruction of Attosecond Beating By Interference of Two-photon Transitions) technique. The measured time delay $…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 I A Ivanov , J M Dahlström , E Lindroth , A S Kheifets

Ionization of acetylene by linearly-polarized, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser pulses is modelled using time-dependent density functional theory. Several laser wavelengths are considered including one that produces direct ionization to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Daniel Dundas , Peter Mulholland , Abigail Wardlow , Alejandro de la Calle

We employ the R-matrix with time-dependence method to study attosecond angular streaking of F$^-$. Using this negative ion, free of long-range Coulomb interactions, we elucidate the role of short-range electron correlation effects in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 G. S. J. Armstrong , D. D. A. Clarke , J. Benda , A. C. Brown , H. W. van der Hart

Electronic processes within atoms and molecules reside on the timescale of attoseconds. Recent advances in the laser-based pump-probe interrogation techniques have made possible the temporal resolution of ultrafast electronic processes on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongzhe Ma , Hongcheng Ni , Jian Wu

The R-Matrix incorporating Time (RMT) method is a new method for solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for multi-electron atomic systems exposed to intense short-pulse laser light. We have employed the RMT method to investigate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 L. R. Moore , M. A. Lysaght , J. S. Parker , H. W. van der Hart , K. T. Taylor

We investigate laser-driven electron dynamics in solids on the atomic scale and in real space within Floquet formalism, and develop a method based on subcycle-resolved x-ray-optical wave mixing to reconstruct those dynamics. We analyze how…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-21 Daria Popova-Gorelova , Robin Santra