Electron vortices in photoionization by circularly polarized attosecond pulses

JM Ngoko Djiokap, SX Hu, LB Madsen, NL Manakov… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Single ionization of He by two oppositely circularly polarized, time-delayed attosecond
pulses is shown to produce photoelectron momentum distributions in the polarization plane …

Multistart spiral electron vortices in ionization by circularly polarized UV pulses

JM Ngoko Djiokap, AV Meremianin, NL Manakov… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Multistart spiral vortex patterns are predicted for the electron momentum distributions in the
polarization plane following ionization of the helium atom by two time-delayed circularly …

Deep minima in the triply differential cross section for ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron and positron impact

CM DeMars, SJ Ward, J Colgan, S Amami… - Atoms, 2020 - mdpi.com
We investigate ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron-and positron-impact. We apply the
Coulomb–Born (CB1) approximation, various modified CB1 approximations, the three body …

Deep minima and vortices for positronium formation in low-energy positron-hydrogen collisions

AW Alrowaily, SJ Ward… - Journal of Physics B …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the two-channel Kohn and inverse Kohn variational methods, we investigate ground-
state positronium (Ps) formation in positron-hydrogen collisions in the Ore gap. We find two …

Effect of a vortex in the triply differential cross section for electron-impact -shell ionization of carbon

SJ Ward, JH Macek - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
Vortices are an inherent property of the velocity fields of complex, time-dependent,
Schrödinger wave functions ψ occurring where both the real and the imaginary parts of ψ …

Vortices in ionization collisions

F Navarrete, RO Barrachina - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the concept of quantum vortices and their appearance in ionization collisions. By
relaxing the usual geometrical restrictions on the momenta of the final-state, we study these …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of Quantum Vortices in the Ionization of Helium by Proton Impact, and How to Measure Them

TA Guarda, F Navarrete, RO Barrachina - Atoms, 2025 - mdpi.com
This study investigates how the presence of quantum vortices affects the ionization cross-
section of helium atoms by 75 keV proton impact, with special attention to the region near …

Deep minima in the Coulomb-Born triply differential cross sections for ionization of helium by electron and positron impact

CM DeMars, JB Kent, SJ Ward - The European Physical Journal D, 2020 - Springer
Previously, a deep minimum in the measurements of the triply differential cross section
(TDCS) for electron-helium ionization at an incident energy of 64.6 eV was interpreted in …

Vortices in the three-body electron–positron–proton continuum system induced by the positron-impact ionization of hydrogen

F Navarrete, RO Barrachina - … of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
By means of a systematic theoretical study of the transition matrix element T for the
${{e}^{+}}+{\rm H} $ ionization collisions in a collinear geometry, we uncover the presence of …

The Vortex Surface in a Three-Body Quantum System

TA Guarda, F Navarrete, RO Barrachina - Atoms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vortices are structures known in our daily lives and observed in a wide variety of systems,
from cosmic to microscopic scales. Relatively recent studies showed that vortices could also …