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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183002 (2007) [4 pages]

Attosecond Resolved Charging of Ions in a Rare-Gas Cluster

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Ionuţ Georgescu, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

Received 20 June 2007; published 1 November 2007

A scheme to probe dissipative multielectron motion in time is introduced. In this context attosecond probing enables one to obtain information which is lost at later times and cannot be retrieved by conventional methods in the energy domain due to the incoherent nature of the dynamics. As a specific example we will trace the transient charging of ions in a rare-gas cluster during a strong femtosecond vacuum-ultraviolet pulse by means of delayed attosecond pulses.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.183002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.183002
PACS:
31.70.Hq, 32.80.−t, 82.33.Fg