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Abstract:
Ultrafast pump-high-harmonic-generation-probe spectroscopy aims to provide a unique observation window into electronic dynamics while using the infrared or visible light sources. While it is widely accepted that the role of excited bound states in high-harmonic generation is negligible, its dynamics play a significant role in time-resolved pump-probe measurements. Here we show that the time-resolved pump-high-harmonic-generation-probe measurement may reveal a significant (up to 20%) contribution of the quantum interference in electron ionization and recombination with atomic system, with the initial or the final state being an excited bound state. Interplay of two dephasing mechanisms of electron-ion and electron-atom collisions yields decay and recovery of the time-resolved signal, respectively, signifying the role of the quantum interference involving excited bound states in recovery mode. Our theory, based on the density matrix Liouville space formalism, is supported by experimental measurements in argon gas.
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