Semiclassical Approach to Non-Sequential Double Ionization of Diatomic Molecules in Strong Laser Field

We develop a semiclassical model to describe the non-sequential double ionization of diatomic molecules in an intense linearly polarized field, achieving insight into the two-electron correlation effect in the ionization dynamics. Compared to the experimental data of nitrogen molecules, our model shows a good agreement in the tunnelling regime and a qualitative agreement in the over-barrier regime. We find that the classical collisional trajectories are the main source of the double ionization in the tunnelling regime. As a prediction of our theory, we also calculate the double ionization ratios of H₂2²⁺H₂2⁺ for hydrogen molecules and predict a ratio less than that of nitrogen molecules.