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General model and toolkit for the ionization of three or more electrons in strongly driven molecules using an effective Coulomb potential for the interaction between bound electrons

Katsoulis, GP; Peters, MB; Emmanouilidou, A; (2024) General model and toolkit for the ionization of three or more electrons in strongly driven molecules using an effective Coulomb potential for the interaction between bound electrons. Physical Review A , 109 (3) , Article 033106. 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.033106. Green open access

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Abstract

We formulate a general three-dimensional semiclassical model for the study of correlated multielectron escape during fragmentation of molecules driven by intense infrared laser pulses. We do so in the context of triple ionization of strongly driven HeH2+. Our model fully accounts for the singularity in the Coulomb potentials of a recolliding electron with the core and a bound electron with the core as well as for the interaction of a recolliding electron with a bound electron. This model also accounts for the magnetic field of the laser pulse. To avoid artificial autoionization, our model employs effective potentials to treat the interaction between bound electrons. We focus on triple and double ionization as well as frustrated triple and frustrated double ionization. In these processes, we identify and explain the main features of the sum of the kinetic energies of the final ion fragments. We find that frustrated double ionization is a major ionization process, and we identify the different channels and hence different final fragments that are obtained through frustrated double ionization. Also, we discuss the differences between frustrated double and triple ionization.

Type: Article
Title: General model and toolkit for the ionization of three or more electrons in strongly driven molecules using an effective Coulomb potential for the interaction between bound electrons
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.033106
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.109.033106
Language: English
Additional information: Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190118
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