Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay

D Iablonskyi; K Ueda; K L Ishikawa; A S Kheifets; P Carpeggiani; M Reduzzi; H Ahmadi; A Comby; G Sansone; T Csizmadia; S Kuehn; E Ovcharenko; T Mazza; M Meyer; A Fischer; C Callegari; O Plekan; P Finetti; E Allaria; E Ferrari; E Roussel; D Gauthier; L Giannessi; K C Prince

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.073203

Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Aug 18;119(7):073203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.073203. Epub 2017 Aug 14.

Authors

D Iablonskyi¹, K Ueda¹, K L Ishikawa^{2

3}, A S Kheifets⁴, P Carpeggiani⁵, M Reduzzi⁵, H Ahmadi⁵, A Comby⁵, G Sansone^{5

6}, T Csizmadia⁷, S Kuehn⁷, E Ovcharenko⁸, T Mazza⁸, M Meyer⁸, A Fischer⁹, C Callegari¹⁰, O Plekan¹⁰, P Finetti¹⁰, E Allaria¹⁰, E Ferrari¹⁰, E Roussel¹⁰, D Gauthier¹⁰, L Giannessi^{10

11}, K C Prince^{10

12}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
² Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
³ Photon Science Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
⁴ Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-IFN, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
⁶ Physikalisches Institut der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
⁷ ELI-ALPS, Pintér József utca, 6728 Szeged, Hungary.
⁸ European XFEL GmbH, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany.
⁹ Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg 69117, Germany.
¹⁰ Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
¹¹ ENEA C.R. Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy.
¹² Molecular Model Discovery Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne 3122, Australia.

PMID: 28949652
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.073203

Abstract

Single-photon laser-enabled Auger decay (spLEAD) is predicted theoretically [B. Cooper and V. Averbukh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083004 (2013)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.111.083004] and here we report its first experimental observation in neon. Using coherent, bichromatic free-electron laser pulses, we detect the process and coherently control the angular distribution of the emitted electrons by varying the phase difference between the two laser fields. Since spLEAD is highly sensitive to electron correlation, this is a promising method for probing both correlation and ultrafast hole migration in more complex systems.