Kinematical vortices in double photoionization of helium by attosecond pulses

Djiokap, J. Ngoko; Meremianin, A. V.; Manakov, N. L.; Hu, S. X.; Madsen, L. B.; Starace, Anthony F.

doi:10.1103/physreva.96.013405

Kinematical vortices in double photoionization of helium by attosecond pulses

Journal Article · Fri Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.96.013405· OSTI ID:1535746

Djiokap, J. Ngoko ^[1]; Meremianin, A. V. ^[2]; Manakov, N. L. ^[2]; Hu, S. X. ^[3]; Madsen, L. B. ^[4]; Starace, Anthony F. ^[5]

Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States); DOE/OSTI
Voronezh State University (Russia)
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Aarhus Univ. (Denmark)
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)

Two-armed helical vortex structures are predicted in the two-electron momentum distributions produced in double photoionization (DPI) of the He atom by a pair of time-delayed elliptically polarized attosecond pulses with opposite helicities. These predictions are based upon both a first-order perturbation theory analysis and numerical solutions of the two-electron, time-dependent Schrödinger equation in six spatial dimensions. The helical vortex structures originate from Ramsey interference of a pair of ionized two-electron wave packets, each having a total angular momentum of unity, and appear in the sixfold differential DPI probability distribution for any energy partitioning between the two electrons. The vortex structures are exquisitely sensitive to the time delay between the two pulses, their relative phase, their ellipticity, and their handedness; moreover, they occur in a variety of electron detection geometries. However, the vortex structures only occur when the angular separation β = cos^-1 (ˆ p₁ ∙ ˆ p₂) between the electron momenta p₁ and p₂ is held fixed. The vortex structures can also be observed in the fourfold differential DPI probability distribution obtained by averaging the sixfold differential probability over the emission angles of one electron. Such kinematical vortices are a general phenomenon that may occur in any ionization process, initiated by two time-delayed short pulses with opposite ellipticities, for particular detection geometries.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-96ER14646; NA0001944

OSTI ID:: 1535746

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1368610

Journal Information:: Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 96; ISSN 2469-9926

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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