Photoionization of the 4d state of the sodium atom in the field of a nanosecond pulse of a Nd:YAG laser

Results of experiments on photoionization of excited sodium atoms in the 4d state in the field of nanosecond pulses of a Nd:YAG laser are reported. The dependence of the photoionization signal for the given atomic state on the ionizing pulse energy was obtained. The experimental results are compared with the model calculations of the saturation curve for the photoionization signal.     

Diagrammatic Representation of Electronic Correlations in Photoionization Process: Application to Scandium

The conversion rules under which an algebraic expression can be obtained from a corresponding photoionization Goldstone diagram have been given systematically in the present work. The electronic correlations in the photoionization processes then could be studied diagrammatically. The application to atomic scandium shows that the present theoretical scheme can give reasonable photoionization cross sections, which agree well with the experimental results.     

Photoionization of atoms in parallel electric and magnetic fields: Cross-section calculations using the Lanczos algorithm and the complex coordinate method in a discrete variable representation

A combination of the complex-coordinate method and the Lanczos recursion scheme is implemented in the discrete variable representation (DVR) to obtain total photoionization cross-sections using an iterative procedure. Applications to photoionization of hydrogen atoms in electric fields and sodium atoms in electric and parallel electric and magnetic fields are presented and discussed. Received 15 May 2000 and Received in final form 4 October 2000     

高密度体系光电离截面新表达式的应用

利用实验光谱学的Beer Lambert定律和介质中的麦克斯韦方程组，建立了精确的光吸收（光电离）截面表达式，并通过一个随体系粒子数密度和宏观复介电常数而变化的变换函数，将严格截面公式与Fano和Cooper 1968年建立的理想气体的光电离截面公式直接联系起来.建议：1)当知道某密度下正确的体系宏观复介电常数β,γ时，可直接由严格表达式求得高密度下非理想状态的正确光电离截面；2)或当知道该体系的粒子微观极化率η,ζ和其理想气体的精确截面时，用上述变换公式间接求得其他密度时的光电离截面.对氩原子和氙原子的应用表明：当缺乏β,γ时，可由某一合理的宏观电极化率物理（例如克劳修斯-莫索缔）模型来计算β,γ，从而获得高密度体系的截面.这样获得的结果符合被散射物质的光电离（光吸收）截面随体系粒子数密度增大而增加的客观散射现象.而且，考虑了高密度真实体系中粒子间相互作用的宏观电极化率模型越正确，如此求得的散射截面的误差就越小. 关键词： 光电离截面 光吸收截面 介电常数 极化率     

Photoionization of the excited He atom in Debye plasmas

We present theoretical photoionization cross sections for He 1s2s ¹S and He 1s2p ¹P states in a Debye plasma environment by the complex coordinate rotation method, using a finite L² basis set constructed from one electron Laguerre orbitals. The plasma environment is found to appreciably influence the photoionization cross sections near the ionization threshold. In this regard, the photoionization cross sections of isolated He are compared with other theoretical and experimental results. Our results are in good agreement with the previous results. A new minimum appears in the photoionization cross section curve for the metastable 1s2s ¹S state. Results are given for the S- and D-wave partial photoionization for the excited 1s2p ¹P state.     

锂原子光电离过程中的弛豫效应

利用基于多组态Dirac-Fock方法的程序包GRASP92和RATIP以及在此基础上最新发展的RERR06程序,计算了锂原子1s²nl(n=2,3; l=s, p) 的内壳层和外壳层的光电离截面. 计算中详细考虑了光电离过程中的弛豫效应. 结果表明：在锂原子内壳层电子的光电离过程中弛豫效应较强,而在外壳层电子的光电离过程中弛豫效应较弱. 另外,相应于不同态的内壳层光电离过程,其弛豫效应的影响也不同,对激发态的影响比对基态的影响大,对高激发态 关键词： 多组态Dirac-Fock方法 光电离截面 弛豫效应     

Interference effects on the photoionization cross sections between two neighbouring atoms: nitrogen as an example

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.     

稠密、冷铝等离子体的辐射不透明度研究

使用细致谱项模型、联合组态相互作用方法和R 矩阵方法计算了处于局域热动平衡条件下的稠密、冷铝等离子体的辐射不透明度 .组态相互作用方法用于获得束缚 束缚吸收截面所需要的偶极跃迁振子强度 ,R矩阵方法用于获得光电离截面 .对于温度在 6— 12eV、密度为 0 .36mg/cm3 的铝等离子体 ,计算得到的吸收系数在波长为 0 .35 1,0 .5 2 7和 1.0 5 4 μm处与实验结果符合较好 ,而温度在 3— 6eV时 ,理论计算比实验结果大. The radiative opacity has been investigated by using detailed term accounting approximation for dense, cold aluminum plasmas under local thermodynamic equilibrium. The configuration interaction scheme has been used to obtain the relevant atomic parameters for bound-bound absorption, such as excitation energies and oscillator strengths. R-matrix method has been used to obtain the photoionization cross sections. For aluminum plasmas of density 0.36 mg/cm 3, temperature of 6-12 eV, the...     

Ionization of barium through a coherent excitation of two bound intermediate states

We have investigated theoretically the asymmetrical photoionization yields into the 6s _1/2, 5d _3/2 and 5d _5/2 continuum channels of atomic barium observed by Wang, Chen and Elliott [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2416 (1996)] in the study of coherent control through two-color resonant interfering paths. The atomic parameters obtained from a theoretical approach based on a combination of jj-coupled eigenchannel R-matrix and Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory are used to analyze the photoionization spectra from the and 6s7p states with polarized light beams. The studied energy range includes the 6p7p autoionizing resonances. The dynamics of the two-color photoionization is governed by the coherent excitation of the 6s6p and intermediate states. This excitation is described as an adiabatic process in the rotating wave approximation. The influence of the radiative decay, spatial distribution of the intensities of the laser beams and hyperfine interaction is discussed. Received 28 September 1999     

Near-threshold electron-impact ionization of calcium atoms

The electron-impact ionization of calcium atoms is studied in the near-threshold energy range (from 6.11 to 16 eV). Experiments were performed by the method of intersecting electron and atomic beams with the recording of formed positive calcium ions. The electron beam (ΔE _1/2 = 0.15 eV) was formed using a hypocycloidal electron monochromator. An analysis of the specific features of ionization cross sections revealed a contribution from the excitation and decay of low-lying autoionization atomic states, which converge to the excitation thresholds of the 3d, 4p, and 5s ionic levels, and resonances (long-lived states of negative ions). The specific features of cross sections are identified using the experimental and theoretical data on photoionization (photoabsorption).     

Ultrafast nanoporous silica formation driven by femtosecond laser irradiation

A type of glass modifications occurring after femto‐second laser irradiation gives rise to strong (10⁻²) from birefringence. This form birefringence is thought to be related to index nanostructure (called nanogratings). Analyzing induced tracks in fused silica using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with nm resolution shows that nanostructures are porous nanoplanes with an average index lower than typical silica (Δn ∼ –0.20). Their origin is explained as arising from fast decomposition of the glass under localized, high‐intensity femtosecond laser radiation where strong nonlinear, multiphoton‐induced photoionization leads to plasma generation. Mechanistic details include Coulombic explosions characteristic of strong photoionization and the production of self‐trapped exciton (STE). Rapid relaxation of these STE prevents recombination and dissociated atomic oxygen instead recombines with each other to form molecular oxygen pointed out using Raman microscopy. Some of it is dissolved in the condensed glass whilst the rest is trapped within nanovoids. A chemical recombination can only occur at 1200 °C for many hours. This explains the thermal stability of such a nanostructure. Precise laser translation and control of these birefringent nanoporous structures allo arbitrarily tuning and positioning within the glass, an important tool for controlling optical properties for photonic applications, catalysts, molecular sieves, composites and more.     

Atomic magneto-dipole photoionization

The special features of magneto-dipole photoionization of atomic s states are analyzed and the possibilities of experimental observation of this effect are discussed. It has been shown that despite the smallness of total cross sections for magnetic processes as compared with electric-dipole ones, the experimental observation of magnetic effects is possible, in principle, if photoelectrons are detected in the directions perpendicular to both the polarization vector of photon and its momentum; i.e. in the directions where the differential cross section for electric-dipole ionization of atomic s states is close to zero. The capabilities of the derived general formulas for the magneto-dipole cross sections are illustrated by numerical calculations for s subshells of He and Be atoms.     

Doubly excited 2s2p 1,3P1 resonances in photoionization of helium

The multi-configuration Dirac-Fock（MCDF） method is implemented to study doubly excited 2s2p ^1,3P₁ resonances of the helium atom and the interference between photoionization and photoexcitation autoionization processes.In order to reproduce the total photoionization sprectra,the excited energies from the ground 1s^{2 1}S₀ state to the doubly excited 2s2p ^1,3P₁ states and the relevant Auger decay rates and widths are calculated in detail.Furthermore,the interference profile determined by the so-called Fano parameters q and ρ² is also reproduced.Good agreement is found between the present results and other available theoretical and experimental results.This indeed shows a promising way to investigate the Fano resonances in photoionization of atoms within the MCDF scheme,although there are some discrepancies in the present calculations of the 2s2p ³P₁ state.     

Calculation of atomic and molecular photoionization cross sections using the ground state inversion potential method

Calculations of atomic photoionization cross sections to near Hartree-Fock accuracy can be achieved very simply if the non-local Hartree-Fock potential experienced by the photoelectron is replaced by a local potential obtained by inversion of the corresponding ground state orbital. Subshell cross sections for atomic photoionizatim for representative atoms in the range 0–1500 eV calculated in this way are in good general agreement with Hartree-Fock values and with experiment. The extension to molecular systems and the use of an independent atomic centre approach to calculation of molecular photoionization cross sections at low photon energies is outlined.     

用激光共振电离光谱测定铈原子奇宇称高激发态(Ⅰ):32 042～34 575 cm-1

激光共振电离光谱是一种十分适合于高能量区重元素复杂原子结构研究的技术。为寻找原子最佳的共振电离通道，利用这一技术对铈原子奇宇称高激发态进行了研究。在32042－34575cm^-1范围内，用两步共振激发和非共振电离方法，首次观察到了83条铈原子奇宇称高激发态能级，测量了这些新能级的能量和给出了可能的总角动量J值。     

Density-dependent photoabsorption cross sections of atomic Xe

The evolution of the photoabsorption cross sections of atomic xenon with number densities varying from ideal gas to condensed matter has been studied by an alternative view in the present work. The alternative expressions of the photoabsorption cross sections presented by Sun et al recently were used with the local field models that has proven to be generalized easily to multiatomic systems including molecules and condensed phase systems. The present results show that the variation of the photoabsorption cross sections of atomic xenon in the giant resonance region from the isolated to the condensed conditions is very small, which agrees well with the variation law of the solid and gas experiments.     

Multiple series of shape resonances and near-zero-energy cross section enhancements in photoionization of hydrogen-like ions with screened coulomb interaction

The recently discovered multiple series of shape resonances and near-zero-energy enhancements in photoionization cross section of hydrogen-like atomic systems with screened Coulomb (Yukawa type) interaction [Phys. Rev. A 80, 063404 (2009)] are studied in detail, in particular their evolution with the variation of the screening strength of the potential. The conditions for appearance of these multiple series of cross section features are identified and related to certain critical screening strengths of the potential. A relation between the appearance of Cooper minima and shape resonaces in the photoionizations cross section has been established. It is also shown that the s-channel of np photoionization for a fixed photoelectron energy exhibits Ramsauer-Townsend minima in the screening length variable.     

Hartree-Fock and density functional theory studies on ionization and fragmentation of halomethane molecules by positron impact

The fragmentation patterns of halomethane molecules CF₄, CCl₂F₂, CClF₃ and CHF₃ due to positron impact have been studied by using ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) methods. The geometries of parent molecules and fragments are optimized at HF, MP2 and B3LYP levels of theory using the 6–31+G(d, p) basis set. The calculated reaction energies agree with the experimental values. The condensed Fukui functions have been calculated using the atomic charges of the Mulliken population analysis (MPA) scheme for the halomethane molecules. The calculated condensed Fukui functions successfully predict the reactive site of the halomethane molecules for the positron, electron and radical attacks. The chemical hardness and chemical potential for the above molecules and its fragments are calculated.     

Photoionization properties of an atom with two autoionizing states

We have investigated the photoionization properties of an atom with a ladder coupling scheme involving two autoionizing states coupled to each other.The effects of the coherent coupling between two autoionizing states and between the low-lying autoionizing state and the continuum on the ionization yield are discussed.The conditions leading to atomic coherent population trapping and the coherent population trapping states are given explicitly.     

Nonlinear optical properties of a medium with <Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis>-configuration of atomic levels

Nonlinear effects related to the resonant interaction of electromagnetic fields that act on four transitions of a five-level M scheme of atomic levels in the stationary limit are studied. Eight stationary solutions that depend on the state of circular polarizations of three operating classical modes of the field are found for the atomic density matrix. To decrease the absorption of the fields on the atomic transitions, the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency is used. The conditions under which the M scheme is close in its optical properties to two- or three-level schemes are found. Based on the obtained eight solutions, the total accumulated phase shifts of the working waves are calculated. It is shown that the M scheme can perform the operation of double controlled phase shift. Alternatively to the method proposed, this operation also can be carried out using five two-qubit operations, which reduces its noise immunity.