Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Angular dependence of the Wigner time delay upon tunnel ionization of H2

  • D. Trabert,
  • S. Brennecke,
  • K. Fehre,
  • N. Anders,
  • A. Geyer,
  • S. Grundmann,
  • M. S. Schöffler,
  • L. Ph. H. Schmidt,
  • T. Jahnke,
  • R. Dörner,
  • M. Kunitski,
  • S. Eckart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21845-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Light-matter interaction leading to photoelectron emission via the photoelectric effect illustrates the quantum nature of light. Here, the authors report the dependence of the photoelectron’s Wigner time delay on the photoelectron’s emission direction relative to the molecular axis of hydrogen in strong field tunnel-ionization.