Multielectron corrections in molecular high-order harmonic generation for different formulations of the strong-field approximation
Autor: | C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, B. B. Augstein |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) Operator (physics) Relaxation (NMR) FOS: Physical sciences Electron Molecular physics Diatomic molecule Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Homonuclear molecule Physics - Atomic Physics Harmonic spectrum Dipole Heteronuclear molecule Quantum electrodynamics Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters High harmonic generation Surface second harmonic generation Physics::Atomic Physics Physics::Chemical Physics Excitation |
Zdroj: | Journal of Modern Optics. 58:1173-1187 |
ISSN: | 1362-3044 0950-0340 |
DOI: | 10.1080/09500340.2011.587612 |
Popis: | We make a detailed assessment of which form of the dipole operator to use in calculating high order harmonic generation within the framework of the strong field approximation, and look specifically at the role the form plays in the inclusion of multielectron effects perturbatively with regard to the contributions of the highest occupied molecular orbital. We focus on how these corrections affect the high-order harmonic spectra from aligned homonuclear and heteronuclear molecules, exemplified by $\mathrm{N}_2$ and CO, respectively, which are isoelectronic. We find that the velocity form incorrectly finds zero static dipole moment in heteronuclear molecules. In contrast, the length form of the dipole operator leads to the physically expected non-vanishing expectation value for the dipole operator in this case. Furthermore, the so called "overlap" integrals, in which the dipole matrix element is computed using wavefunctions at different centers in the molecule, are prominent in the first-order multielectron corrections for the velocity form, and should not be ignored. Finally, inclusion of the multielectron corrections has very little effect on the spectrum. This suggests that relaxation, excitation and the dynamic motion of the core are important in order to describe multielectron effects in molecular high-order high harmonic generation. Figures 2 and 4 have been simplified in order to fulfil the size requirements of arXiv; in the new version references have been added |
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