Duration-Dependent Asymmetry in Photoionization of H atoms in Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

The photoionization of H atoms irradiated by few-cycle laser pulses is studied numerically. The variations of the total ionization, the partial ionizations in opposite directions, and the corresponding asymmetry with the carrier-envelope phase in several pulse durations are obtained. We find that besides a stronger modulation on the partial ionizations, the change of pulse duration leads to a shift along carrier-envelope （CE） phase in the calculated signals. The phase shift arises from the nonlinear property of ionization and relates closely to the Coulomb attraction of the parent ion to the ionized electron. Our calculations show good agreement with the experimental observation under similar conditions.     

Carrier－Envelop Phase－Dependent Effect on Photoelectron Angular Distribution in Single－Cycle Laser Pulses ＊

Using a nonperturbative scattering theory, We study the photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) of Kr atoms irradiated by an infinite sequence of intense single-cycle pulses of circular polarization. We demonstrate the inversion asymmetry of PADs and the dependence of PADs on the carrier-envelop phase of the single-cycle pulses. The inversion asymmetry is caused by the interference between transition channels where the different channels are characterized by different combinations of absorbed-photon numbers in the ionization process. Our results provide a possible method to determine the value of carrier-envelop phase by the detected PADs.     

Time-Dependent Quantum Dynamics of Dissociation for CH4 on an Ni（100） Surface

The semirigid vibrating rotor target (SVRT) model proposed by Zhang [J.Chem. Phys. 111 (1999) 3929] is applied to study the dynamics of dissociative adsorption for CH4 on a fiat and static Ni(100) surface. The molecule CH4 is treated as a semirigid vibrating rotor CH3-H, and the London-Eyring-Polanyi-Sato potential     

A Scaling Law of Photoionization in Ultrashort Pulses

By means of the numerical solution of time-dependent Schr6dinger equation, we verify a scaling law of photoionization in ultrashort pulses. We find that for a given carrier-envelope phase and duration of the pulse, identical photoionizations are obtained provided that when the central frequency of the pulse is enlarged by k times, the atomic binding potential is enlarged by k times, and the laser intensity is enlarged by ka times. The scaling law allows us to reach a significant control over direction of photoemission and offers exciting prospects of reaching similar physical processes in different interacting systems which constitutes a novel kind of coherent control.