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most citedDouble-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer

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physics.atom-ph2026

Ultrafast electron vortex produced by a grating made of light

Zichen Li, Hao Liang, Yuan Gu +9

The generation of vortex matter waves carrying quantized orbital angular momentum is challenging and relies heavily on the material nanofabrication methods due to their extremely s…

physics.atom-ph2025

Dynamical phase evolution of Coulomb-focused electrons in strong-field ionization probed by a standing light wave

Yuan Gu, Hao Liang, Weiran Zheng +13

We investigate the dynamical phase evolution of Coulomb-focused electrons in strong-field ionization. We diffract the electrons with an ultrashort standing light wave to track thei…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 3 cited

Chiral Electron Momentum Distribution upon Strong-Field Ionization of Atoms

A. Geyer, J. Stindl, I. Dwojak +14

We present a scheme to synthesize a three-dimensional laser field that produces a chiral electron momentum distribution upon strong-field ionization of atoms. Our approach employs…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 1 cited

Ro-vibrational Dynamics of the Neon Dimer

D. Blume, Q. Guan, J. Kruse +2

Short intense laser pulses are routinely used to induce rotational wave packet dynamics of molecules. Ro-vibrational wave packet dynamics has been explored comparatively infrequent…

physics.atom-ph2024

Sub-cycle resolved strong field ionization of chiral molecules and the origin of chiral photoelectron asymmetries

M. Hofmann, D. Trabert, A. Geyer +9

We report on strong field ionization of S- and R-propylene oxide in circularly polarized two-color laser fields. We find that the relative helicity of the two single color laser fi…

physics.atom-ph2023

Ideal Two-Color Field Ratio for Holographic Angular Streaking of Electrons

D. Trabert, A. Geyer, N. Anders +7

We study strong field ionization of molecular hydrogen in highly intense co-rotating two-color (CoRTC) laser fields. The measured electron momentum distributions show alternating h…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 10 cited

Angular dependence of the Wigner time delay upon strong field ionization from an aligned p-orbital

D. Trabert, N. Anders, A. Geyer +7

We present experimental data on the strong-field ionization of the argon dimer in a co-rotating two-color (CoRTC) laser field. We observe a sub-cycle interference pattern in the ph…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 12 cited

Experimental fingerprint of the electron's longitudinal momentum at the tunnel exit in strong field ionization

A. Geyer, D. Trabert, M. Hofmann +7

We present experimental data on the strong field tunnel ionization of argon in a counter-rotating two-color (CRTC) laser field. We find that the initial momentum component along th…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 33 cited

Magnetic-field effect in high-order above-threshold ionization

Kang Lin, Simon Brennecke, Hongcheng Ni +15

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the influence of the magnetic component of an electromagnetic field on high-order above-threshold ionization of xenon atoms driven b…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 1 cited

Photoelectron energy peaks shift against the radiation pressure in strong field ionization

Kang Lin, Sebastian Eckart, Alexander Hartung +8

The photoelectric effect describes the ejection of an electron upon absorption of one or several photons. The kinetic energy of this electron is determined by the photon energy red…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 12 cited

Ultrafast preparation and strong-field ionization of an atomic Bell-like state

S. Eckart, D. Trabert, J. Rist +4

Molecules are many body systems with a substantial amount of entanglement between their electrons. Is there a way to break the molecular bond of a diatomic molecule and obtain two…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 31 cited

Strong Differential Photoion Circular Dichroism in Strong-Field Ionization of Chiral Molecules

K. Fehre, S. Eckart, M. Kunitski +14

We investigate the differential ionization probability of chiral molecules in the strong field regime as a function of the helicity of the incident light. To this end, we analyze t…

physics.atm-clus2020★ 20 cited

Swirling the weakly bound helium dimer from inside

Maksim Kunitski, Qingze Guan, Holger Maschkiwitz +9

Controlling the interactions between atoms with external fields opened up new branches in physics ranging from strongly correlated atomic systems to ideal Bose and Fermi gases and…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 55 cited

Electric Nondipole Effect in Strong-Field Ionization

A. Hartung, S. Brennecke, K. Lin +10

Strong-field ionization of atoms by circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses produces a donut-shaped electron momentum distribution. Within the dipole approximation this distr…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 44 cited

Angular dependence of the Wigner time delay upon tunnel ionization of

Daniel Trabert, Simon Brennecke, Kilian Fehre +9

More than 100 years after its discovery and its explanation in the energy domain, the duration of the photoelectric effect is still heavily studied. The emission time of a photoele…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 22 cited

Sideband Modulation by Sub-Cycle Interference

S. Eckart, D. Trabert, K. Fehre +9

We experimentally and theoretically show that the electron energy spectra strongly depend on the relative helicity in highly intense, circularly polarized two-color laser fields wh…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 18 cited

Orientation Dependent Dissociative Ionization of H in Strong Elliptic Laser Fields: Modification of the release time through molecular orientation

Arnab Khan, Daniel Trabert, Sebastian Eckart +3

We investigate the photoelectron angular emission distributions obtained by strong field dissociative ionization of H using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy. In cas…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 26 cited

Holographic detection of parity in atomic and molecular orbitals

HuiPeng Kang, Andrew S. Maxwell, Daniel Trabert +8

We introduce a novel and concise methodology to detect the parity of atomic and molecular orbitals based on photoelectron holography, which is more general than the existing scheme…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 99 cited

Magnetic fields alter tunneling in strong-field ionization

A. Hartung, S. Eckart, S. Brennecke +16

When a strong laser pulse induces the ionization of an atom, momentum conservation dictates that the absorbed photons transfer their momentum to the electron and its pa…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 18 cited

Multiphoton Double Ionization of Helium at 394nm - a Fully Differential Experiment

K. Henrichs, S. Eckart, A. Hartung +11

We report on a kinematically complete experiment on strong field double ionization of helium using laser pulses with a wavelength of 394\,nm and intensities of $3.5-5.7\times10^{14…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 73 cited

Direct Experimental Access to the Nonadiabatic Initial Momentum Offset upon Tunnel Ionization

S. Eckart, K. Fehre, N. Eicke +11

We report on the non-adiabatic offset of the initial electron momentum distribution in the plane of polarization upon single ionization of argon by strong field tunneling and show…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 32 cited

Timing Recollision in Nonsequential Double Ionization by Intense Elliptically Polarized Laser Pulses

H. Kang, K. Henrichs, M. Kunitski +10

We examine correlated electron and doubly charged ion momentum spectra from strong field double ionization of Neon employing intense elliptically polarized laser pulses. An ellipti…

physics.ins-det2018★ 77 cited

Absolute ion detection efficiencies of microchannel plates and funnel microchannel plates for multi-coincidence detection

K. Fehre, D. Trojanowskaja, J. Gatzke +11

Modern momentum imaging techniques allow for the investigation of complex molecules in the gas phase by detection of several fragment ions in coincidence. For these studies, it is…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 8.3k cited

Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer

Maksim Kunitski, Nicolas Eicke, Pia Huber +13

Wave-particle duality is an inherent peculiarity of the quantum world. The double-slit experiment has been frequently used for understanding different aspects of this fundamental c…