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Attosecond real-time observation of electron tunnelling in atoms
M. Uiberacker,Thorsten Uphues,Martin Schultze,Aart J. Verhoef,Vladislav S. Yakovlev,Matthias F. Kling,Jens Rauschenberger,Nikolay M. Kabachnik,Nikolay M. Kabachnik,Hartmut Schröder,Matthias Lezius,Karl L. Kompa,H. G. Muller,Marc J. J. Vrakking,Stefan Hendel,Ulf Kleineberg,Ulrich Heinzmann,Markus Drescher,Ferenc Krausz +18 more
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The real-time observation of this most elementary step in strong-field interactions: light-induced electron tunnelling is reported, and the process is found to deplete atomic bound states in sharp steps lasting several hundred attoseconds, suggesting a new technique, attose Cond Tunnelling, for probing short-lived, transient states of atoms or molecules with high temporal resolution.Abstract:
Atoms exposed to intense light lose one or more electrons and become ions. In strong fields, the process is predicted to occur via tunnelling through the binding potential that is suppressed by the light field near the peaks of its oscillations. Here we report the real-time observation of this most elementary step in strong-field interactions: light-induced electron tunnelling. The process is found to deplete atomic bound states in sharp steps lasting several hundred attoseconds. This suggests a new technique, attosecond tunnelling, for probing short-lived, transient states of atoms or molecules with high temporal resolution. The utility of attosecond tunnelling is demonstrated by capturing multi-electron excitation (shake-up) and relaxation (cascaded Auger decay) processes with subfemtosecond resolution.read more
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Single-cycle nonlinear optics.
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TL;DR: The technique relies on establishing an absolute reference point in the laboratory frame by elliptical polarization of the laser pulse, from which field-induced momentum shifts of the emergent electron can be assigned to a temporal delay on the basis of the known oscillation of the field vector.
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Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization
Giuseppe Sansone,F. Kelkensberg,J. F. Pérez-Torres,Felipe Morales,Matthias F. Kling,W. Siu,O. Ghafur,Per Johnsson,Per Johnsson,Marko Swoboda,Enrico Benedetti,F. Ferrari,F. Lepine,José Luis Sanz-Vicario,Sergey Zherebtsov,Irina Znakovskaya,Anne L'Huillier,M. Yu. Ivanov,Mauro Nisoli,Fernando Martín,Marcus Vrakking +20 more
TL;DR: Attosecond pump–probe strategies are established as a powerful tool for investigating the complex molecular dynamics that result from the coupling between electronic and nuclear motions beyond the usual Born–Oppenheimer approximation.
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