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Does Carrier Envelope Phase Affect the Ionization Site in a Neutral Diatomic Molecule?

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ATOMS
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/atoms11040067

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strong field ionization; molecular ionization; Quantum Trajectory Monte Carlo

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A recent study demonstrates the extraction of the ionization site of a neutral diatomic molecule by comparing QTMC simulations with experimental measurements. The study shows that a downfield atom is approximately twice as likely to be ionized as an upfield atom in a neutral nitrogen molecule using a 40-femtosecond infrared pulse. However, it remains uncertain whether the assumption of a zero CEP is valid for short, few-cycle pulses.
A recent work shows how to extract the ionization site of a neutral diatomic molecule by comparing Quantum Trajectory Monte Carlo (QTMC) simulations with experimental measurements of the final electron momenta distribution. This method was applied to an experiment using a 40-femtosecond infrared pulse, finding that a downfield atom is roughly twice as likely to be ionized as an upfield atom in a neutral nitrogen molecule. However, an open question remains as to whether an assumption of the zero carrier envelope phase (CEP) used in the above work is still valid for short, few-cycle pulses where the CEP can play a large role. Given experimentalists' limited control over the CEP and its dramatic effect on electron momenta after ionization, it is desirable to see what influence the CEP may have in determining the ionization site. In this paper, we employ QTMC techniques to simulate strong-field ionization and electron propagation from neutral N2 using an intense 6-cycle laser pulse with various CEP values. Comparing simulated electron momenta to experimental data indicates that the ratio of down-to-upfield ions remains roughly 2:1 regardless of the CEP. This confirms that the ionization site of a neutral molecule is determined predominantly by the laser frequency and intensity, as well as the ground-state molecular wavefunction, and is largely independent of the CEP.

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