Affiliation:
1. Physics Faculty, Voronezh State University, Voronezh 394018, Russia
Abstract
The dichroism effects, i.e., asymmetries of the ionization probability with respect to the inversion of either the atomic orientation (magnetic dichroism, MD) or the circular polarization degree of the photon beam (circular dichroism, CD), are investigated using the time-dependent perturbation theory (PT). It is shown that the magnitude of these effects depends not only on the polarization states of the atom and laser pulse but also on the intensity and duration of the latter. We find that the CD can also be observed in the ionization of oriented initial bound states, which is impossible in long-pulse ionization. Predictions of our PT analysis are supported by the results obtained by numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) describing the ionization of the excited 2P-states of the hydrogen atom.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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