Photoelectron circular dichroism in the multiphoton ionization by short laser pulses. I. Propagation of single-active-electron wave packets in chiral pseudo-potentials

Anton N Artemyev; Anne D Müller; David Hochstuhl; Philipp V Demekhin

doi:10.1063/1.4922690

Photoelectron circular dichroism in the multiphoton ionization by short laser pulses. I. Propagation of single-active-electron wave packets in chiral pseudo-potentials

J Chem Phys. 2015 Jun 28;142(24):244105. doi: 10.1063/1.4922690.

Authors

Anton N Artemyev¹, Anne D Müller¹, David Hochstuhl², Philipp V Demekhin¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Physics and CINSaT, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-St. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany.
² Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Leibnizstrasse 15, 24098 Kiel, Germany.

PMID: 26133408
DOI: 10.1063/1.4922690

Abstract

A theoretical method to study the angle-resolved multiphoton ionization of polyatomic molecules is developed. It is based on the time-dependent formulation of the Single Center (TDSC) method and consists in the propagation of single-active-electron wave packets in the effective molecular potentials in the presence of intense laser pulses. For this purpose, the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for one electron, moving in a molecular field and interacting with an arbitrary laser pulse, is solved in spherical coordinates by an efficient numerical approach. As a test, the method is applied to the one- and two-photon ionizations of a model methane-like chiral system by circularly polarized short intense high-frequency laser pulses. Thereby, we analyze the photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in the momentum distribution. The considered model application illustrates the capability of the TDSC method to study multiphoton PECD in fixed-in-space and randomly oriented chiral molecules.