Dynamic two-center interference in high-order harmonic generation from molecules with attosecond nuclear motion

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Aug 1;101(5):053901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.053901. Epub 2008 Jul 30.

Abstract

We report a new dynamic two-center interference effect in high-harmonic generation from H2, in which the attosecond nuclear motion of H2+ initiated at ionization causes interference to be observed at lower harmonic orders than would be the case for static nuclei. To enable this measurement we utilize a recently developed technique for probing the attosecond nuclear dynamics of small molecules. The experimental results are reproduced by a theoretical analysis based upon the strong-field approximation which incorporates the temporally dependent two-center interference term.