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Unified ab initio treatment of attosecond photoionization and Compton scattering

DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/42/20/205601
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  1. National Research Council Canada
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Subjectattosecond; laser; ionization; photoelectron; molecular
Abstract
We present a new theoretical approach to attosecond laser-assisted photo- and Compton ionization. Attosecond x-ray absorption and scattering are described by y(¹,²)-matrices, which are coherent superpositions of ‘monochromatic’ S(¹,²)-matrices in a laser-modified Furry representation. Besides refining the existing theory of the soft x-ray photoelectron attosecond streak camera and spectral phase interferometry (ASC and ASPI), we formulate a theory of hard x-ray photoelectron and Compton ASC and ASPI. The resulting scheme has a simple structure and leads to closed-form expressions for ionization amplitudes. We investigate Compton electron interference in the separable Coulomb–Volkov continuum with both Coulomb and laser fields treated non-perturbatively. We find that at laser-field intensities below 10¹³ Wcm⁻² normalized Compton lines almost coincide with the lines obtained in the laser-free regime. At higher intensities, attosecond interferences survive integration over electron momenta, and feature prominently in the Compton lines themselves. We define a regime where the electron ground-state density can be measured with controllable accuracy in an attosecond time interval. The new theory provides a firm basis for extracting photo- and Compton electron phases and atomic and molecular wavefunctions from experimental data.
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PublisherIOP Publishing
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  • Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 42, no. 20 (25 September 2009): 205601-1–205601-8.
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NPARC number15209991
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