Imaging ring-current wave packets in the helium atom
Abstract
We study the reconstruction of a wave packet and the corresponding electron dynamics in an atom via photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) in a pump-probe scheme as a function of time delay. The method is applied to the superposition of ground and one or two excited states in helium atom representing field-free charge migrations on the attosecond timescale in form of ring currents around the core. It is based on the interference between one- and two-photon transitions from ground and excited states into the continuum. In the reconstruction predictions of first- and second-order perturbation theory are used to determine the unknown phases and amplitudes from the PADs, which we simulate via solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in single-active-electron approximation. Results of calculations show that the reconstruction technique works well for peak laser intensities less than 1013 W/cm2. Knowledge of the electric field of the probe pulse is required with shot-to-shot variations of carrier-to-envelope phase and peak intensity of up to 10% and 20%, respectively. The relevance of different one- and two-photon pathways for the reconstruction as a function of peak intensity and pulse duration is analyzed—specifically their role for ultrashort probe pulses with broad bandwidths.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1850752
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1874534
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001771
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Optics; Physics; Atomic & molecular processes in external fields; Photoemission; Single- and few-photon ionization & excitation; Ultrafast phenomena
Citation Formats
Venzke, J., Becker, A., and Jaron-Becker, A. Imaging ring-current wave packets in the helium atom. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.103.042808.
Venzke, J., Becker, A., & Jaron-Becker, A. Imaging ring-current wave packets in the helium atom. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.042808
Venzke, J., Becker, A., and Jaron-Becker, A. Mon .
"Imaging ring-current wave packets in the helium atom". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.042808. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1850752.
@article{osti_1850752,
title = {Imaging ring-current wave packets in the helium atom},
author = {Venzke, J. and Becker, A. and Jaron-Becker, A.},
abstractNote = {We study the reconstruction of a wave packet and the corresponding electron dynamics in an atom via photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) in a pump-probe scheme as a function of time delay. The method is applied to the superposition of ground and one or two excited states in helium atom representing field-free charge migrations on the attosecond timescale in form of ring currents around the core. It is based on the interference between one- and two-photon transitions from ground and excited states into the continuum. In the reconstruction predictions of first- and second-order perturbation theory are used to determine the unknown phases and amplitudes from the PADs, which we simulate via solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in single-active-electron approximation. Results of calculations show that the reconstruction technique works well for peak laser intensities less than 1013 W/cm2. Knowledge of the electric field of the probe pulse is required with shot-to-shot variations of carrier-to-envelope phase and peak intensity of up to 10% and 20%, respectively. The relevance of different one- and two-photon pathways for the reconstruction as a function of peak intensity and pulse duration is analyzed—specifically their role for ultrashort probe pulses with broad bandwidths.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.103.042808},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 4,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
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