Role of Coulomb repulsion in correlated-electron emission from a doubly excited state in nonsequential double ionization of molecules

With the classical ensemble model, we investigate nonsequential double ionization of aligned molecules by few-cycle laser pulses at low intensity, where the two electrons finally are ionized through a transition doubly excited state induced by recollision. The correlated electron momentum distribution of parallel molecules exhibits the line-shaped structure parallel to the diagonal. Our analysis indicates that besides the ionization time difference of two electrons from the doubly excited state, the final-state e-e Coulomb repulsion plays a vital role in the formation of the line-shaped structural momentum distribution. For perpendicular molecules, due to the prominent near half-cycle ionization time difference between the two electrons from the doubly excited state, the momentum distribution shows clear anticorrelation behavior.