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Circular dichroism in photo-single-ionization of unoriented atoms
1Department of Physics, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92834, USA. jfeagin@fullerton.edu
Physical Review Letters
|January 22, 2002
Abstract:
We predict circular dichroism in photo-single-ionization angular distributions from spherically symmetric atomic states if the ionized electron is detected using two-slit interferometry. We demonstrate that the resulting electron interference pattern captures phase information on quadrupole corrections to the photoionization amplitude lost in conventional angular distributions.