Tunnel ionization of molecules and orbital imaging

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 106; no. 17; p. 173001
• Main Authors: Murray, Ryan, Spanner, Michael, Patchkovskii, Serguei, Ivanov, Misha Yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 28.04.2011

We study whether tunnel ionization of aligned molecules can be used to map out the electronic structure of the ionizing orbitals. We show that the common view, which associates tunnel ionization rates with the electronic density profile of the ionizing orbital, is not always correct. Using the examp...