Propensity rules and interference effects in laser-Assisted photoionization of helium and neon

• We investigate the angle-resolved photoelectron spectra from laser-Assisted photoionization for helium and neon atoms using an ab initio method based on time-dependent surface flux and configuration interaction singles. We find that the shape of the distributions can be interpreted using a propensity rule, an intrinsic difference in the absorption and the emission processes, as well as interference effects between multiple paths to the final angular momentum state. The difference between absorption and emission is hidden in the first sideband in neon due to the multiple competing m channels, while in the second sideband a qualitative difference between absorption and emission is observed. In the m-resolved case, a clear difference is observed already in the first sideband, as exemplified in helium and m-resolved neon.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

electronic excitation and ionization

light matter interaction

photoemission

single-and few-photon ionization and excitation

ultrafast phenomena

Publication and Content Type

art (subject category)

ref (subject category)