Routes to formation of highly excited neutral atoms in the breakup of strongly driven H 2
Routes to formation of highly excited neutral atoms in the breakup of strongly driven H 2
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.85.011402
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发表时间:
2011-05
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2.9
通讯作者:
A. Emmanouilidou;C. Lazarou;A. Staudte;U. Eichmann
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作者:
A. Emmanouilidou;C. Lazarou;A. Staudte;U. Eichmann
We present a theoretical quasiclassical treatment of the formation, during Coulomb explosion, of highly excited neutral H atoms (${\text{H}}^{*}$) for strongly driven ${\text{H}}_{2}$. This process, where after the laser field is turned off, one electron escapes to the continuum while the other occupies a Rydberg state, was recently reported in an experimental study [B. Manschwetus et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113002 (2009)]. We find that two-electron effects are important in order to correctly account for all pathways leading to ${\text{H}}^{*}$ formation. We identify two pathways where the electron that escapes to the continuum does so either very quickly or after remaining bound for a few periods of the laser field. These two pathways of H${}^{*}$ formation have distinct traces in the probability distribution of the escaping electron momentum components.