Effectofnuclearmotionontunnelingionizationratesof：核运动对隧道电离率的影响.pdfVIP

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICAL REVIEW A 87, 041401(R) (2013) Effect of nuclear motion on tunneling ionization rates of molecules 1,2 ¨ 3 4 Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Hans Jakob Worner, and Toru Morishita 1National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Kurchatov Square 1, Moscow 123182, Russia 2Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny 141700, Russia 3 ¨ ¨ ¨ Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 4Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan (Received 29 January 2013; published 9 April 2013) We show that the observable rate of tunneling ionization of a molecule in an intense low-frequency laser field is affected by nuclear motion and can essentially differ from a bare electronic characteristic calculated for fixed nuclei. Both the absolute value of the rate and the shape of its orientation dependence are affected. The effect is significant for I ∼ 1014 W/cm2 and becomes more pronounced at lower intensities. An isotope effect in tunneling ionization of H2 and D2 is predicted. The results are compared with available experiments. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.041401 PACS number(s): 32.80.Rm, 33.80.R