Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography
Abstract
Strong field photoelectron holography has been proposed as a means for interrogating the spatial and temporal information of electrons and ions in a dynamic system. After ionization, part of the electron wave packet may directly go to the detector (the reference wave), while another part may be driven back and scatters off the ion(the signal wave). The interference hologram of the two waves may be used to extract target information embedded in the collision process. Unlike conventional optical holography, however, propagation of the electron wave packet is affected by the Coulomb potential as well as by the laser field. In addition, electrons are emitted over the whole laser pulse duration, thus multiple interferences may occur. In this work, we used a generalized quantum-trajectory Monte Carlo method to investigate the effect of Coulomb potential and the nonadiabatic subcycle ionization on the photoelectron hologram. Here, we showed that photoelectron hologram can be well described only when the effect of nonadiabatic ionization is accounted for, and Coulomb potential can be neglected only in the tunnel ionization regime. Our results help paving the way for establishing photoelectron holography for probing spatial and dynamic properties of atoms and molecules.
- Authors:
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- Shantou Univ., Shantou, Guangdong (China, Peoples Republic of). Dept. of Physics, College of Science
- Shantou Univ., Shantou, Guangdong (China, Peoples Republic of). Dept. of Physics, College of Science
- Shantou Univ., Shantou, Guangdong (China,Peoples Republic of). Dept. of Physics, College of Science
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China, Peoples Republic of). HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology; Inst. of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing (China, Peoples Republic of)
- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States). J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Physics Dept.
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China, Peoples Republic of). HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology; Inst. of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing (China, Peoples Republic of)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Shantou Univ., Shantou, Guangdong (China, Peoples Republic of)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1285910
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-86ER13491
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; induced electron-diffraction; above-threshold-ionization; laser; photoionization; atoms; phase
Citation Formats
Song, Xiaohong, Lin, Cheng, Sheng, Zhihao, Liu, Peng, Chen, Zhangjin, Yang, Weifeng, Hu, Shilin, Lin, C. D., and Chen, Jing. Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep28392.
Song, Xiaohong, Lin, Cheng, Sheng, Zhihao, Liu, Peng, Chen, Zhangjin, Yang, Weifeng, Hu, Shilin, Lin, C. D., & Chen, Jing. Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28392
Song, Xiaohong, Lin, Cheng, Sheng, Zhihao, Liu, Peng, Chen, Zhangjin, Yang, Weifeng, Hu, Shilin, Lin, C. D., and Chen, Jing. Wed .
"Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28392. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1285910.
@article{osti_1285910,
title = {Unraveling nonadiabatic ionization and Coulomb potential effect in strong-field photoelectron holography},
author = {Song, Xiaohong and Lin, Cheng and Sheng, Zhihao and Liu, Peng and Chen, Zhangjin and Yang, Weifeng and Hu, Shilin and Lin, C. D. and Chen, Jing},
abstractNote = {Strong field photoelectron holography has been proposed as a means for interrogating the spatial and temporal information of electrons and ions in a dynamic system. After ionization, part of the electron wave packet may directly go to the detector (the reference wave), while another part may be driven back and scatters off the ion(the signal wave). The interference hologram of the two waves may be used to extract target information embedded in the collision process. Unlike conventional optical holography, however, propagation of the electron wave packet is affected by the Coulomb potential as well as by the laser field. In addition, electrons are emitted over the whole laser pulse duration, thus multiple interferences may occur. In this work, we used a generalized quantum-trajectory Monte Carlo method to investigate the effect of Coulomb potential and the nonadiabatic subcycle ionization on the photoelectron hologram. Here, we showed that photoelectron hologram can be well described only when the effect of nonadiabatic ionization is accounted for, and Coulomb potential can be neglected only in the tunnel ionization regime. Our results help paving the way for establishing photoelectron holography for probing spatial and dynamic properties of atoms and molecules.},
doi = {10.1038/srep28392},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {6}
}
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