The chaotic property in the autoionization of Rydberg lithium atom

This paper presents theoretical computations of the ionization rate of Rydberg lithium atom above the classical ionization threshold using semiclassical approximation. The yielded random pulse trains of the escape electrons are recorded as a function of emission time such that they can be related to the terms of the recurrence periods of the photoabsorption. This fact illustrates that it is ionic core scattering processes which give rise to chaos in autoionization dynamics and this is verified by comparison of our results with the hydrogen atom situation. In order to reveal the chaotic properties in detail, the sensitive dependence of the ionization rate upon the scaled energy is discussed for different scaled energies. This approach provides a simple explanation for the chaotic character in autoionization decay of Rydberg alkali-metal atoms.     

Above-threshold ionization of hydrogen atom in chirped laser fields

Above-threshold ionization(ATI) of a hydrogen atom exposed to chirped laser fields is investigated theoretically by solving the time-dependent Schr o¨dinger equation. By comparing the energy spectra, the two-dimensional momentum spectra, and the angular distributions of photoelectron for the laser pulses with different chirp rates, we show a very clear chirp dependence both in the multiphoton and tunneling ionization processes but no chirp dependence in the single-photon ionization. We find that the chirp dependence in the multiphoton ionization based ATI can be attributed to the excited bound states. In the single-photon and tunneling ionization regimes, the electron can be removed directly from the ground state and thus the excited states may not be very important. It indicates that the chirp dependence in the tunneling ionization based ATI processes is mainly due to the laser pulses with different chirp rates.     

Nonsequential double ionization of nonaligned diatomic molecules N2 and O2

Nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) processes of nonaligned diatomic molecules N2 and O2 are studied using the S-matrix theory. Our results show that the NSDI process significantly depends on the molecular symmetry and structure. The ratio of NSDI rate to single ionization rate as a function of the field intensity is obtained. It is found that N2 behaves closely with its companion atom Ar in the ratios over the entire intensity range, while O2 exhibits an obvious suppression effect, which is qualitatively consistent with the experiment.     

Structure,stability and electronic properties of SrSi_n(n= 1–12) clusters::Density-functional theory investigation

Geometric structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of SrSin(n = 1–12) clusters have been investigated using the density-functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation. The optimized geometries indicate that one Si atom capped on SrSin 1structure and Sr atom capped Sinstructure for difference SrSinclusters in size are two dominant growth patterns. The calculated average binding energy, fragmentation energy, second-order energy difference, the highest occupied molecular orbital, and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital(HOMO–LUMO) gaps show that the doping of Sr atom can enhance the chemical activity of the silicon framework. The relative stability of SrSi9is the strongest among the SrSinclusters. According to the mulliken population and natural population analysis, it is found that the charge in SrSin clusters transfer from Sr atom to the Sinhost. In addition, the vertical ionization potential, vertical electron affinity, and chemical hardness are also discussed and compared.     

Structure,stability and electronic properties of SrSin （n ： 1-12） clusters： Density-functional theory investigationStructure,stability and electronic properties of SrSin （n ： 1-12） clusters： Density-functional theory investigation

Geometric structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of SrSin （n = 1-12） clusters have been investigated using the density-functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation. The optimized geometries indicate that one Si atom capped on SrSin_ 1 structure and Sr atom capped Sin structure for difference SrSin clusters in size are two dominant growth patterns. The calculated average binding energy, fragmentation energy, second-order energy difference, the highest occupied molecular orbital, and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital （HOMO-LUMO） gaps show that the doping of Sr atom can enhance the chemical activity of the silicon framework. The relative stability of SrSi9 is the strongest among the SrSin clusters. According to the mulliken population and natural population analysis, it is found that the charge in SrSin clusters transfer from Sr atom to the Sin host. In addition, the vertical ionization potential, vertical electron affinity, and chemical hardness are also discussed and compared.     

Multiphoton ionization of the hydrogen atom exposed to circularly or linearly polarized laser pulses

This paper studies the multiphoton ionization of the hydrogen atom exposed to the linearly or circularly polarized laser pulses by solving the time-dependent Schr?dinger equation. It finds that the ratio of the ionization probabilities by linearly and circularly polarized laser pulses varies with the numbers of absorbing photons. With the same laser intensity, the circularly polarized laser pulse favors to ionize the atom with more ease than the linearly polarized laser pulse if only two or three photons are necessary to be absorbed. For the higher order multiphoton ionization, the linearly polarized laser pulse has the advantage over circularly polarized laser pulse to ionize the atom.     

Vacuum-Induced Quantum Interference in a Trapped Λ-Configuration Three-Level System

In consideration of quantization of centre-of-mass motion, we derive the second-order solution of the dynamic equation of a Λ-configuration three-level atom confined in an approximately harmonic trap by using the timedependent perturbation theory. It is found that there are a series of dark lines in the second-order probability spectrum with multi-peak structures, which is the result of the quantum interference from the same vacuum mode in the spontaneous decay process of the trapped atom from the upper level to the two nearby lower levels. Our study shows that the second-order spectrum may be modified by the oscillation frequency Ω of the trap and the frequency difference △ between two lower levels of the three-level atom, and the depth of the dark lines from the vacuum-induced quantum interference effect is strongly dependent on the above two parameters （Ω and △ ）.     

Harmonic Enhancement Mechanism of a Superposition State Atom Irradiated by Short Pulses

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation （HHG） of a model atom whose initial state is prepared in a superposition of its ground state and an excited state irradiated by different duration laser pulses. Compared to the HHG generated from an atom whose initial state is in its ground state, its conversion efficiency obtains some enhancement. The enhancement originates from the higher ionization rate （rather than the ionization yield） of the atom with superposition initial state.     

Filling gap of combination of gauge and analytical method in KFR-like theory

Bauer recently presented a formula for the ionization rate of a hydrogen atom in a strong linearly polarized laser field[J.Phys.B 49145601(2016)].He started from the Keldysh probability amplitude in the length gauge and utilized Reiss’s method in the velocity gauge.Instead,according to the Reiss probability amplitude in the velocity gauge and Keldysh’s derivation for the length gauge,we derive a formula for the ionization rate of a ground-state hydrogen atom or a hydrogenlike atom in a strong linearly polarized laser field.We compare the numerical results of the total ionization rate and the photoelectron energy distribution calculated from our formula with the results from Keldysh,Reiss,and Bauer.We find that the apparent discrepancies in the ionization rate are caused not only by different gauges,but also by different analytical methods used to derive the ionization rate.     

Double-hump resonance structure of the cross sections for electron impact ionization of Ar^5 ＋

Configuration-average distorted-wave calculations are carried out for electron-impact ionization of Ar^5 ＋ .Both direct ionization and the indirect excitation autoionization processes are included in our calculations. Our theoretical values are in quite reasonable agreement with the experimental data. The indirect processes contribute upto 50% to the total ionization cross sections. The possible origin of double-hump resonance structure of the crcessections is demonstrated and the contributions of metastable states are also taken into account.     

COMPETITION EFFECT IN ATOMIC-MOLECULAR SYSTEM

The competition effects among the processes that occur in the two-photon 3S→4D excitation of Na atom in Na-Na₂ vapour mixture are observed: such as atomic ionization, optical-pumped stimulated radiation, four-wave frequency mixing and molecular stimulated diffuse-band radiation, etc. The dip at the two-photon resonance in the excitation spectrum for the diffuse-band radiation under high temperature condition is interpreted as the suppression of population in 4D state.     

Investigation of the transfer ionization process in collisions of partially stripped ions on He

In this paper a projectile ion-recoil ion coincidence technique is used to investigate the transfer ionization processes in collisions of 0.22--6.30~MeV C^{q + } ions and 0.25--6.35~MeV O^{q + } ions (q=1, 2, 3, 4) with the He atom separately. The cross section ratio f of transfer ionization to single electron transfer is measured, and the dependence of f on both charge state q and energy E of the projectiles is investigated. The electron-structure and the mechanisms leading to transfer ionization affect the dependence of f on q and E. Our measurements, along with other data published previously, suggest a similar dependence of f on charge state and energy of projectile for partially stripped ions over a large energy range. The maximum value of f is approximately 0.17q^{0.60}; the energy corresponding to maximum f is about 160q^{0.60}~keV/u.     

Multiple Collisions of a Fast Mesic Atom with a Diatomic Molecule

Processes of ionization of the fast (μHe)⁺ mesic atom in multiple collisions with a diatomic molecule are examined. It is demonstrated that a consideration of molecule alignment can significantly increase the probability of mesic atom ionization. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 30–33, May, 2005.     

Atomic emission spectra and field non-classical properties

This paper studies the interaction of a Λ-type three-level atom with a single mode field. It discusses the emission spectrum characteristics of the Λ -type three-level atom driven by the photon-added coherent field. By means of the second-order degree of coherence, it shows some nonclassical properties of the cavity field, such as sub-Poissonian photon-number distribution and the two-time intensity--intensity correlation which violates the Cauchy--Schwarz inequality.     

Above-threshold ionization of xenon by intense laser field

Above-threshold ionization of xenon atom is treated by the KFR theory withconsideration of screening effects in the initial state.Comparison is made with experiment us-ing circularly polarized laser, screening effects on the above-threshold ionization is also dis-cussed.Better agreement with experiment is found than the previous results using hydrogenicwavefunction.     

Transfer Ionization of Isocharge Sequence Ion and Ar Collisions

The study of multi-electron process has been a very active area of atomic physics research. The simultaneous electron emission and electron transfer is one of the most interesting two-electron processes in the study Of ionatom collisions, In last decade much experimental and theoretical attention has been devoted to the process, named transfer ionization (TI). This process is normally considered as the successive process of the single electron capture and the ionization of the second or more target electrons. The studies of transfer ionization are motivated by the understanding of the role of the electron correlation in ion-atom collisions which is of great interest in basic atomic physics and may provide important information for the applications both in astrophysics and fusion plasmas researches. Different authors have investigated the transfer ionization process by measuring the angular distribution of the emitted electrons. Up to now, the systematic study of the transfer ionization and the dependences of these processes on the collision parameters for the low energy ion-atom collisions are still rarely reported in the literatures.     

Multiphoton resonant ionization of hydrogen atom exposed to two-colour laser pulses

This paper studies the multiphoton resonant ionization by two-colour laser pulses in the hydrogen atom by solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. By fixing the parameters of fundamental laser field and scanning the frequency of second laser field, it finds that the ionization probability shows several resonance peaks and is also much larger than the linear superposition of probabilities by applying two lasers separately. The enhancement of the ionization happens when the system is resonantly pumped to the excited states by absorbing two or more colour photons non-sequentially.     

Ionization in an intense field considering Coulomb correction

We derive a simple ionization rate formula for the ground state of a hydrogen atom in the velocity gauge under the conditions:ω1 a.u.(a.u.is short for atomic unit) and γ1(ω is the laser frequency and y is the Keldysh parameter).Comparisons are made among the different versions of the Keldysh-Faisal-Reiss(KFR) theory.The numerical study shows that with considering the quasi-classical(WKB) Coulomb correction in the final state of the ionized electron,the photoionization rate is enhanced compared with without considering the Coulomb correction,and the Reiss theory with the WKB Coulomb correction gives the correct result in the tunneling regime.Our concise formula of the ionization rate may provide an insight into the ionization mechanism for the ground state of a hydrogen atom.     

Sequential over-barrier ionization of multi-electron atoms in the tens-to-hundreds keV/u energy range

Our previous work on the classical over-barrier ionization model for helium double ionization is extended to the complex multi-electron system of Ne.The total and q-fold ionization cross sections are calculated at energies ranging from a few tens to several hundred keV/u.The calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental data,and the energy dependence of the cross sections suggests that the multi-ionization of a strong perturbated complex atom is probably the sequential over-barrier ionization process.