Threshold-related enhancement of the high-energy plateau in above-threshold detachment

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 May 13;88(19):193001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.193001. Epub 2002 Apr 24.

Abstract

We present nonperturbative theoretical results showing a resonant-like enhancement of above-threshold detachment spectra in the region of the high-energy plateau as the laser intensity sweeps across channel thresholds. This enhancement has a pure quantum origin stemming from well-known threshold phenomena in multichannel problems whose features are clearly demonstrated in our numerical results. Similar well-known anomalies at neutral atom thresholds are expected to explain experimentally observed resonant-like enhancements of above-threshold ionization spectra.