Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 21, 2102001(2022)

Coulomb Shifts in Spiderlike Photoelectron Momentum Distributions by Analytically-Coulomb-Corrected Semiclassical Rescattering Model

Guoyue Fu, Guizhong Zhang*, Shenghua Zhang, Wei Shi, and Jianquan Yao
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  • School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Guoyue Fu, Guizhong Zhang, Shenghua Zhang, Wei Shi, Jianquan Yao. Coulomb Shifts in Spiderlike Photoelectron Momentum Distributions by Analytically-Coulomb-Corrected Semiclassical Rescattering Model[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(21): 2102001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Atomic and Molecular Physics

    Received: Mar. 24, 2022

    Accepted: May. 10, 2022

    Published Online: Nov. 4, 2022

    The Author Email: Zhang Guizhong (johngzhang@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.2102001

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