Resolving Quantum Interference Black Box through Attosecond Photoionization Spectroscopy
(2023) In Physical Review Letters 131(20).- Abstract
Multiphoton light-matter interactions invoke a so-called "black box"in which the experimental observations contain the quantum interference between multiple pathways. Here, we employ polarization-controlled attosecond photoelectron metrology with a partial wave manipulator to deduce the pathway interference within this quantum 'black box"for the two-photon ionization of neon atoms. The angle-dependent and attosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectra are measured across a broad energy range. Two-photon phase shifts for each partial wave are reconstructed through the comprehensive analysis of these photoelectron spectra. We resolve the quantum interference between the degenerate p→d→p and p→s→p two-photon ionization pathways, in... (More)
Multiphoton light-matter interactions invoke a so-called "black box"in which the experimental observations contain the quantum interference between multiple pathways. Here, we employ polarization-controlled attosecond photoelectron metrology with a partial wave manipulator to deduce the pathway interference within this quantum 'black box"for the two-photon ionization of neon atoms. The angle-dependent and attosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectra are measured across a broad energy range. Two-photon phase shifts for each partial wave are reconstructed through the comprehensive analysis of these photoelectron spectra. We resolve the quantum interference between the degenerate p→d→p and p→s→p two-photon ionization pathways, in agreement with our theoretical simulations. Our approach thus provides an attosecond time-resolved microscope to look inside the "black box"of pathway interference in ultrafast dynamics of atoms, molecules, and condensed matter.
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- Funding Information: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 12241407, No. 12122404, No. 12261160363, No. 11974114, No. 12227807, No. 11834004), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No. 228002246), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. YBNLTS2023-010). G. A., A. B., and H. v.-d.-H. acknowledge the work from Daniel D. A. Clarke and Jakub Benda in developing new capabilities within the RMT code that were used in this work, and the funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grants No. EP/T019530/1, No. EP/V05208X/1, and No. EP/R029342/1. This work relied on the ARCHER2 UK Supercomputer Service, for which access was obtained via the UK-AMOR consortium funded by EPSRC. The RMT code is part of the UK Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics R-matrix (UK-AMOR) suite. This work benefited from computational support by CoSeC, the Computational Science Centre for Research Communities, through CCPQ. J. M. D. acknowledges support from the Swedish Research Council: 2018-03845, the Olle Engkvist Foundation: 194-0734 and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation: 2017.0104 and 2019.0154. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 American Physical Society.
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