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Orbital-resolved photoelectron momentum distributions of neon atoms in bichromatic elliptically polarized attosecond pulses

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We theoretically study the orbital-resolved photoelectron momentum distributions (PMDs) of neon atoms in time-delayed bichromatic elliptically polarized attosecond pulses by numerically solving the two-dimensional time-dependent Schrödinger equation (2D-TDSE). The active electron can reach the continuum state at the same momentum by absorbing \(m_{2}\) high-energetic photons or \(m_{1}\) low-energetic photons sequentially, and coherent electron wave packets (CEWPs) from these two pathways can interfere with each other. We show the PMDs exhibit an asymmetrical round when the single-photon ionization channel dominates, while spiral structures with the number of arms are \(m_{1}-m_{2}\) (\(m_{1}+m_{2}\)) for the corotating (counter-rotating) scheme. Furthermore, we find that interference patterns in PMDs are sensitive to the amplitude ratio, frequency combinations, dichroism, time delay and ellipticity of bichromatic elliptically polarized attosecond pulses, which offers possibilities for controlling the interference of CEWPs in atoms by shaping the bichromatic elliptically polarized attosecond pulses.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (12164044, 11864037, 12064023, 11765018); Project supported by the Science-Technology Foundation for Young Scientist of Gansu Province of China (Grant No. 20JR5RA373); the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (Grant No. 20JR5RA209); the Scientific Research Program of the Higher Education Institutions of Gansu Province of China (Grant No. 2020A-125); and the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2020-BS-078).

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    Rong-Rong Wang, Mao-Yun Ma, Zhong Guan, Zhi-Hong Jiao, Guo-Li Wang & Song-Feng Zhao

  2. College of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, People’s Republic of China

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  3. College of Electronic Information Engineering, Lanzhou Institute of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Li

  4. School of Electronic Engineering, Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou, 730070, People’s Republic of China

    Jian-Hong Chen

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Wang, RR., Ma, MY., Wang, JP. et al. Orbital-resolved photoelectron momentum distributions of neon atoms in bichromatic elliptically polarized attosecond pulses. Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 145 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00471-x

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