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Attosecond pulses are an ideal tool to explore electron and nuclear dynamics in atoms and molecules. Either as single attosecond pulses (SAP), in attosecond pulse trains (APT), or in combination with infrared (IR) pulses, these pulses, with frequencies in the VUV-XUV regime, have been widely used to probe ionization, electron tunneling, or autoionization in atoms. More recently, similar processes have been studied in molecules. A correct theoretical description of such processes in molecules often requires a fully dimensional treatment due to the important role of nuclear motion and electron correlation. This restricts ab initio calculations to the simplest molecules. In this chapter, we discuss single ionization of hydrogen molecules (H2 and D2) induced by time-delayed SAP+IR and APT+IR schemes. Ab initio time-dependent theoretical calculations are compared with existing experiments.
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We set the R direction by \({C}_{(\alpha =u){\nu }_{\alpha }}^{\epsilon l} \rightarrow {C}_{u{\nu }_{\alpha }}^{\epsilon l}\) and the L direction by \({C}_{(\alpha =u){\nu }_{\alpha }}^{\epsilon l} \rightarrow -{C}_{u{\nu }_{\alpha }}^{\epsilon l}\).
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Rivière, P., Palacios, A., Pérez-Torres, J.F., Martín, F. (2012). Probing Electron Dynamics in Simple Molecules with Attosecond Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Nisoli, M., Hill, W. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VIII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28726-8_1
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