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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 101, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.183002
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [FIS2007-60064]
- European Science Foundation [CM0702]
- U. S. DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences.
- National Science Foundation [PHY-0604628]
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Recent experiments on double photoionization of H-2 with photon energies between 160 and 240 eV have revealed body-frame angular distributions that suggest classical two-slit interference effects may be present when one electron carries most of the available energy and the second electron is not observed. We report precise quantum mechanical calculations that reproduce the experimental findings. They reveal that the interpretation in terms of classical diffraction is only appropriate at substantially higher photon energies. At the energies considered in the experiment we offer an alternative explanation based on the mixing of two nondiffractive contributions by circularly polarized light.
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