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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 11, Pages 2101-2116Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/33/11/310
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We study the multiphoton ionization of He by a strong ultrashort laser pulse. We solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation numerically by means of a spectral method of configuration-interaction type (CI). Our method is based on an expansion on B-spline functions, more precisely each two-electron configuration is built as an antisymmetrized B-spline product for the (two-dimensional) radial part and dipolar spherical harmonics for the (four-dimensional) angular part. We focus on both the atomic structure calculations and the laser-atom dynamics. We show that our approach allows one to properly treat the electron-electron correlations so as to provide an accurate description of many eigenstates simultaneously The method is applied in two different situations: (a) the multiphoton excitation and ionization of helium with photon energies ranging from 5.4 to 32.6 eV and (b) the two-photon ionization of helium below the He+(2l) threshold and three-photon ionization above the He2+ threshold with photon energies ranging from 25.8 to 34 eV. The results are compared with other CI calculations (where a comparison is possible) and, in case (a), tb Hartree-Fock calculations. In case (b) we particularly focus on the dynamics of the production of doubly-excited structure by laser pulses with a duration which is shorter than the autoionization lifetime.
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