Interference effects on the photoionization cross sections between two neighbouring atoms: nitrogen as an example |
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| Authors: | Wu Jian-Hua and Yuan Jian-Min |
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| Affiliation: | Department of
Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha
410073, China |
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| Abstract: | Interference effects on the photoionization cross sections
between two neighbouring atoms are considered based on the coherent
scattering of the ionized electrons by the two nuclei when their
separation is less than or comparable to the de Broglie wave length
of the ionized electrons. As an example, the single atomic nitrogen
ionization cross section and the total cross sections of two
nitrogen atoms with coherently added photoionization amplitudes are
calculated from the threshold to about 60~\AA (1~\AA=0.1~nm) of the
photon energy. The photoionization cross sections of atomic nitrogen
are obtained by using the close-coupling R-matrix method. In the
calculation 19 states are included. The ionization energy of the
atomic nitrogen and the photoionization cross sections agree well
with the experimental results. Based on the R-matrix results of
atomic nitrogen, the interference effects between two neighbouring
nitrogen atoms are obtained. It is shown that the interference
effects are considerable when electrons are ionized just above the
threshold, even for the separations between the two atoms are larger
than two times of the bond length of N2 molecules. Therefore, in
hot and dense samples, effects caused by the coherent interference
between the neighbours are expected to be observable for the total
photoionization cross sections. |
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| Keywords: | interference effect photoionization cross section nitrogen atom |
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