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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053001 (2006) [4 pages]

Ab initio Calculation of the Double Ionization of Helium in a Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Beyond the One-Dimensional Approximation

Camilo Ruiz,1 Luis Plaja,1 Luis Roso,1 and Andreas Becker2
1Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain
2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

Received 7 October 2005; published 7 February 2006

We present ab initio computations of the ionization of two-electron atoms by short pulses of intense linearly polarized Ti:sapphire laser radiation beyond the one-dimensional approximation. In the model the electron correlation is included in its full dimensionality, while the center-of-mass motion is restricted along the polarization axis. Our results exhibit a rich double ionization quantum dynamics in the direction transversal to the field polarization, which is neglected in the previous models based on the one-dimensional approximation.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.053001
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.053001
PACS: 32.80.Rm; 33.80.Rv; 42.50.Hz
  • 32.80.Rm
    Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states in atoms e.g., Rydberg states
  • 33.80.Rv
    Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states in molecules e.g., Rydberg states
  • 42.50.Hz
    Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: ab initio calculations, helium neutral atoms, photoionisation, atom-photon collisions, electron correlations

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