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Published on: August 6, 2018
Complex dynamics of correlated electrons in molecular double ionization by an ultrashort intense laser pulse
1Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
With a semiclassical quasistatic model we achieve insight into the complex dynamics of two correlated electrons under the combined influence of a two-center Coulomb potential and an intense laser field. The model calculation is able to reproduce experimental data of nitrogen molecules for a wide range of laser intensities from the tunneling to the over-the-barrier regime, and predicts a significant alignment effect on the ratio of double over single ion yield. The classical trajectory analysis allows us to unveil subcycle molecular double ionization dynamics.
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