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View SchemaElectron release of rare gas atom clusters under an intense laser pulse
| Authors | Christian Siedschlag, Jan M. Rost |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0206070 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0206070 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.173401 |
Abstract
Calculating the energy absorption of atomic clusters as a function of the laser pulse length $T$ we find a maximum for a critical $T^*$. We show that $T^*$ can be linked to an optimal cluster radius $R^*$. The existence of this radius can be attributed to the enhanced ionization mechanism originally discovered for diatomic molecules. Our findings indicate that enhanced ionization should be operative for a wide class of rare gas clusters. From a simple Coulomb explosion ansatz, we derive an analytical expression relating the maximum energy release to a suitably scaled expansion time which can be expressed with the pulse length $T^*$.
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