Photoelectron momentum distributions of single-photon ionization under a pair of elliptically polarized attosecond laser pulses

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab8ac0

Abstract The attosecond ionization dynamics of atoms has attracted extensive attention in these days. However, the role of the initial state is not clearly understood. To address this question, we perform simulations on the neon atom and its model atom with different initial states by numerically solving the corresponding two-dimensional time-dependent Schrödinger equations. We theoretically investigate atomic photoelectron momentum distributions (PMDs) by a pair of elliptically polarized attosecond laser pulses. We find that the PMD is sensitive not only to the ellipticities of the pulses, the relative helicity, and time delay of the pulses, but also to the symmetry of the initial electronic states. Results are analyzed by the first-order time-dependent perturbation theory (TDPT) and offer a new tool for detecting the rotation direction of the ring currents.

Keywords: photoelectron momentum distributions elliptically polarized attosecond laser pulses magnetic quantum numbers rotation direction of the ring currents

Received: 18 February 2020
Revised: 17 March 2020
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PACS:	42.50.Hz	(Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
	32.80.Wr	(Other multiphoton processes)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11404204 and 11974229), the Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Shanxi Province, China (Grant No. 201901D211404), the Scientific and Technological Innovation Program of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi Province, China (Grant No. 2019L0468), and the Project of Excellent Course of Shanxi Normal University, China (Grant No. 2017YZKC-35).

Corresponding Authors: Xiang-Yang Miao
E-mail: sxxymiao@126.com

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Hui-Fang Cui(崔会芳), Xiang-Yang Miao(苗向阳) Photoelectron momentum distributions of single-photon ionization under a pair of elliptically polarized attosecond laser pulses 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 074203

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