Influence of catastrophes and hidden dynamical symmetries on ultrafast backscattered photoelectrons

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العنوان: Influence of catastrophes and hidden dynamical symmetries on ultrafast backscattered photoelectrons
المؤلفون: Rook, T., Rodriguez, L. Cruz, Faria, C. Figueira de Morisson
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Atomic Physics, Quantum Physics
الوصف: We discuss the effect of using potentials with a Coulomb tail and different degrees of softening in the photoelectron momentum distributions (PMDs) using the recently implemented hybrid forward-boundary CQSFA (H-CQSFA). We show that introducing a softening in the Coulomb interaction influences the ridges observed in the PMDs associated with backscattered electron trajectories. In the limit of a hard-core Coulomb interaction, the re-scattering ridges close along the polarization axis, while for a soft-core potential, they are interrupted at ridge-specific angles. We analyze the momentum mapping of the different orbits leading to the ridges. For the hard-core potential, there exist two types of saddle-point solutions that coalesce at the ridge. By increasing the softening, we show that two additional solutions emerge as the result of breaking a hidden dynamical symmetry associated exclusively with the Coulomb potential. Further signatures of this symmetry breaking are encountered in subsets of momentum-space trajectories. Finally, we use scattering theory to show how the softening affects the maximal scattering angle and provide estimates that agree with our observations from the CQSFA. This implies that, in the presence of residual binding potentials in the electron's continuum propagation, the distinction between purely kinematic and dynamic caustics becomes blurred.
Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures; some figures and an appendix were added in the revised version
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02264
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2403.02264
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv