Temporal coherent control of resonant two-photon double ionization of the hydrogen molecule via doubly excited states
Temporal coherent control of resonant two-photon double ionization of the hydrogen molecule via doubly excited states
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.103.053110
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发表时间:
2021-05-11
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2.9
通讯作者:
Starace, Anthony F.
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作者:
Djiokap, J. M. Ngoko;Starace, Anthony F.
We use time-delayed, counter-rotating, circularly polarized few-cycle attosecond nonoverlapping pulses to study the temporal coherent control of the resonant process of two-photon double ionization (TPDI) of hydrogen molecule via doubly excited states for pulse propagation direction along (k) over cap either parallel or perpendicular to the molecular axis (R) over cap. For (k) over cap parallel to (R) over cap and a pulse carrier frequency of 36 eV resonantly populating the Q(2) (1)Pi(+)(u)(1) doubly excited state as well as other (1)Pi(+)(u) doubly excited states, we find that the indirect ionization pathway through these doubly excited states changes the character of the kinematical vortex-shaped momentum distribution produced by the two direct ionization pathways from fourfold to twofold rotational symmetry. This result is similar to what found in TPDI of the He atom involving P-1(+/- 1)o doubly excited states [Ngoko Djiokap and Starace, J. Opt. 19, 124003 (2017)]; however, angular distributions exhibiting a quantum beat effect between the ground state and a doubly excited state seen for the He atom are observed here for its molecular counterpart with an anomaly in shape and magnitude, not in frequency. The sixfold differential probability integrated over the azimuthal angle of the photoelectron pair shows that this anomaly is due to autoionization decays and quantum beats between doubly excited states. For (k) over cap perpendicular to (R) over cap and a broadband pulse carrier frequency of 30 eV populating the Q1 (1)Pi(+)(u)(1), Q(1) (1)Sigma(u+) (1), Q(2) (1)Pi(+)(u)(1), and Q(1) (1)Sigma(u+) (2) doubly excited states, the momentum distribution is shown to exhibit dynamical electron vortices with four spiral arms, which originates from the interplay between the (1)Delta(+)(g), (1)Pi(+)(g), and (1)Sigma(+)(g) dynamical ionization amplitudes. Our treatment within either the adiabatic-nuclei approximation or fixed-nuclei approximation shows that the latter provides a very good account for this correlated process.