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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 81, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.063413
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/D07309X/1]
- EPSRC [EP/D07309X/2, EP/D07309X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D07309X/2, EP/D07309X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We perform a rigorous, semianalytic study of the recollision excitation with subsequent tunneling ionization (RESI) mechanism in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization (NSDI), based on the strong-field approximation. We show that the shapes of the electron momentum distributions carry information about the bound state with which the first electron collides, the bound state to which the second electron is excited, and the type of electron-electron interaction. Furthermore, one may define a driving-field intensity threshold for the RESI physical mechanism. At the threshold, the kinetic energy of the first electron, upon return, is just sufficient to excite the second electron. We compute the distributions for helium and argon in the threshold and above-threshold intensity regimes. In the latter case, we relate our findings to existing experiments. The electron momentum distributions encountered are symmetric with respect to all quadrants of the plane spanned by the momentum components parallel to the laser-field polarization, instead of concentrating on only the second and fourth quadrants. The above-mentioned momentum constraints, together with the strong dependence of the distributions on the bound states involved, may be important for singling out the RESI mechanism in actual physical situations and using NSDI in ultrafast imaging.
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