Two-electron time-delay interference in atomic double ionization by attosecond pulses

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Dec 18;103(25):253001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.253001. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

Abstract

A two-color two-photon atomic double ionization experiment using subfemtosecond uv pulses can be designed such that the sequential two-color process dominates and one electron is ejected by each pulse. Nonetheless, ab initio calculations show that, for sufficiently short pulses, a prominent interference pattern in the joint energy distribution of the sequentially ejected electrons can be observed that is due to their indistinguishability and the exchange symmetry of the wave function.