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Title Attosecond Strobing of Two-Surface Population Dynamics in Dissociating H2+
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Abstract Using H2+ and D2+, we observe two-surface population dynamics by measuring the kinetic energy of the correlated ions that are created when H2+ (D2+) ionize in short (40?140 fs) and intense (1014 W/cm^2) infrared laser pulses. Experimentally, we find a modulation of the kinetic energy spectrum of the correlated fragments. The spectral progression arises from a hitherto unexpected spatial modulation on the excited state population, revealed by Coulomb explosion. By solving the two-level time-dependent Schro¨dinger equation, we show that an interference between the net-two-photon and the one-photon transition creates localized electrons which subsequently ionize.
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Keywords Physics
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Journal Article Phys Rev Lett 98 (2007): 073003. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.073003 2007