R. Scholten, T. O’Kane, Tracy R. Mackin, T. Hunt, P. Farrell
{"title":"Calculating trajectories for atoms in near-resonant lightfields","authors":"R. Scholten, T. O’Kane, Tracy R. Mackin, T. Hunt, P. Farrell","doi":"10.1071/PH99014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99014","url":null,"abstract":"We review several methods for calculating the time development of the internal state and the external motion of atoms in near-resonant light fields, with emphasis on studying the focussing of atomic beams into microscopic and potentially nanoscopic patterns. Three different approaches are considered: two-level semiclassical, multi-level semiclassical, and the Monte Carlo wavefunction method. The two-level semiclassical technique of McClelland and Scheinfein (1991) and McClelland (1995) is extended to three dimensions, and used to calculate the trajectories of atoms and the imaging properties of a simple lens formed from a near-resonant travelling TEM01 mode laser. The model is then extended to multi-level atoms, where we calculate the density matrix for the internal state of a sample of thermal atoms in a standing wave, and show how cooling processes can be simulated. Finally, we use the Monte Carlo wavefunction method to calculate the internal state of the atom, and compare the results and required computation time to those of the multi-level semiclassical technique.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123340434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coherence and correlation in electron scattering from the alkalis","authors":"P. Teubner, V. Karaganov, K. Stockman","doi":"10.1071/PH98081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98081","url":null,"abstract":"A series of superelastic electron scattering experiments from lithium and from potassium is described in which the total polarisation parameter P+ is measured. We report significant departures from the coherence condition P+ = 1 for both targets. The structure observed in the parameter P+ can be interpreted by a qualitative wave mechanical model that had been introduced by our research group to explain similar structure in superelastic electron scattering experiments from sodium.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129985969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul trap promotion of electrons in atomic collisions","authors":"G. Oppen, M. Tschersich, R. Drozdowski, M. Busch","doi":"10.1071/PH98082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98082","url":null,"abstract":"Electron promotion on rotating potential saddles is proposed as an important and efficient excitation mechanism taking place in atomic collisions at intermediate energies. Measurements on the excitation of atoms by positively charged particles, in particular, excitation of He I states in p–He collisions provides experimental evidence for this ‘Paul trap’ promotion in two-centre Coulomb potentials.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114911568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angular distribution of hydrogen fragment ions in H + -H 2 collisions","authors":"B. Siegmann, R. Hippler","doi":"10.1071/PH99021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99021","url":null,"abstract":"The angular distribution of H+ fragment ions produced in 5–25 keV H+–H2 collisions was investigated in coincidence with Lyman-α photons. The observed photons arise from electron capture to the projectile H(2p) state and/or from the fragmentation of the H2 molecule via 2sσg, 2pσu or 2pΠ u states of the excited H+2* ion. An analysis of the measured angular distributions has been performed to distinguish the separate degenerate channels available to an emitted Lyman-α photon. The results show similarities to the data of Lindsay et al. (1987) who measured the non-coincident angular distribution of H+ fragment ions within the same energy range.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128270445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlations in electron-atom collisions involving polarised electrons and photons","authors":"G. Hanne","doi":"10.1071/PH98087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98087","url":null,"abstract":"More sophisticated experimental methods to study inelastic electron–atom collisions include polarisation-correlation measurements such as electron–photon (e, eγ) and electron–electron (e, 2e) coincidence studies or stepwise electron–photon (eγ, γ) correlations. Electron correlations and spin effects can be explored on the most fundamental level in such experiments. In this paper recent (e, eγ) studies with Hg and Xe, (eγ, γ) studies with Ne and (e, 2e) studies with Xe using polarised electrons and/or polarised photons are reviewed.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116922545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Hall, M. Shurgalin, A. Murray, W. Macgillivray, M. Standage
{"title":"Transfer of angular momentum in electron collisions with alkali atoms","authors":"B. Hall, M. Shurgalin, A. Murray, W. Macgillivray, M. Standage","doi":"10.1071/PH98097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98097","url":null,"abstract":"Measurements of the transfer of angular momentum to rubidium and sodium atoms in collisions with electrons are reported. For excitation of the rubidium 52S1/2–52 P3/2 transition, it is found that existing first order distorted wave Born approximation calculations show poor agreement with the data and that a model which includes the relativistic interaction between the electrons and the atoms in the potential is needed. For the de-excitation of the sodium 42S1/2 –32 P3/2 transition, a long standing proposal relating to the sign of the transferred angular momentum is not supported except at small scattering angles. A convergent close coupling calculation displays excellent agreement with the measured data.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123027389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dynamics of two-electron atoms","authors":"J. Briggs","doi":"10.1071/PH98114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98114","url":null,"abstract":"Since the first attempts to calculate the helium ground state in the early days of Bohr–Sommerfeld quantisation, two-electron atoms have posed a series of challenges to theoretical physics. Despite the seemingly simple problem of three charged particles with known interactions it took more than half a century after quantum mechanics was established to describe spectra of two-electron atoms satisfactorily. The evolution of the understanding of correlated two-electron dynamics and its importance for doubly excited resonance states is described in this overview.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127684551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron recapture near thresholds","authors":"D. Waterhouse, J. F. Williams","doi":"10.1071/PH98090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH98090","url":null,"abstract":"Electron recapture following photon or electron-impact ionisation near thresholds attracts considerable interest. A comparison is made of the information gained from studies utilising different methods of observation including ion yields, (e, 2e) coincidence, and photo-electron spectroscopy, to increase understanding of the electron recapture process.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130273777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Schmidt-Böcking, V. Mergel, R. Dörner, H. Bräuning, M. Achler, L. Spielberger, O. Jagutzki, T. Weber, Kh. Khayyat, J. Ulrich, C. Cocke, M. Prior, Y. Azuma, Y. Awaya, T. Kambara
{"title":"Cold target helum recoil ion momentum imaging: understanding correlated electron motion in the double ionisation process","authors":"H. Schmidt-Böcking, V. Mergel, R. Dörner, H. Bräuning, M. Achler, L. Spielberger, O. Jagutzki, T. Weber, Kh. Khayyat, J. Ulrich, C. Cocke, M. Prior, Y. Azuma, Y. Awaya, T. Kambara","doi":"10.1071/PH99020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99020","url":null,"abstract":"Novel imaging techniques enable a highly efficient detection of ions and electrons from ionising multi-fragmentation processes of atoms and molecules induced by photons and charged particles. From position and time-of-flight measurements the vector momenta of these fragments are determined. These devices combine 4Π solid angle with high resolution in momentum space. They deliver multi-dimensional images of the multi-particle break-up processes. These fully differential cross sections unveil the physical processes dominating the reaction. We discuss double ionisation of He induced by photons and fast protons, which is one of the most fundamental two-electron systems. New results are presented. In a speculative manner the future perspectives with respect to the investigation of dynamical electron– electron correlation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"664 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133322415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Teuber, T. Döppner, M. Schumacher, J. Tiggesbäumker, K. H. Meiswes-Broer
{"title":"Excitation of heavy metal clusters by strong fs laser pulses","authors":"S. Teuber, T. Döppner, M. Schumacher, J. Tiggesbäumker, K. H. Meiswes-Broer","doi":"10.1071/PH99046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99046","url":null,"abstract":"The excitation of neutral platinum and lead clusters by intense femtosecond laser pulses is studied by time-of-flight spectroscopy. Clusters are completely destroyed when interacting in the high intensity region of the laser focus. Moreover, highly charged atomic ions with up to 20 charges are detected under special pulse conditions. The atomic ion distribution shows a pronounced dependence on the chosen pulse width, suggesting that multi-plasmon excitations are responsible for the high charge states measured. The Coulomb explosion of a metal sphere is simulated under tunneling ionisation conditions. The calculated optical response of such a cluster within the framework of the random phase approximation agrees well with the experimental observations.","PeriodicalId":170873,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Physics","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134207865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}