Nondipole effects in atomic dynamic interference
arXiv:1812.06084 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023412
Abstract
Nondipole effects in the atomic dynamic interference are investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation~(TDSE) of hydrogen. It is found that the inclusion of nondipole corrections in the TDSE can induce momentum shifts of photoelectrons in the opposite direction of the laser propagation. The magnitude of the momentum shift is roughly proportional to the laser peak intensity and to the momentum component of the photoelectron along the laser propagation. By including the nondipole corrections of the Volkov phase into a semi-analytical model previously developed under the dipole approximation, all the main features of the momentum shifts can be nicely reproduced. Through an analytic expression, the origin of such momentum shifts is attributed to the nondipole phase difference between the two electron wave packets ejected in the rising edge and the falling edge, which will interfere with each other and result in the final fringe pattern. One important consequence of such momentum shifts is that they can smooth out the peak splitting induced by the dynamic interference in the photoelectron energy spectrum. Nevertheless, it should be emphasized that the dynamic interference persists in the photoelectron momentum distributions and is not suppressed at all for the laser parameters considered in this work.
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