Ultrafast Interatomic Electronic Decay in Multiply Excited Clusters

作者:Kuleff Alexander I*; Gokhberg Kirill; Kopelke Soeren; Cederbaum Lorenz S
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 105(4): 043004.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.043004

摘要

An ultrafast mechanism belonging to the family of interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) phenomena is proposed. When two excited species are present, an ultrafast energy transfer can take place bringing one of them to its ground state and ionizing the other one. It is shown that if large homoatomic clusters are exposed to an ultrashort and intense laser pulse whose photon energy is in resonance with an excitation transition of the cluster constituents, the large majority of ions will be produced by this ICD mechanism rather than by two-photon ionization. A related collective-ICD process that is operative in heteroatomic systems is also discussed.

  • 出版日期2010-7-23