Electron heating in the laser and static electric and magnetic fields
Plasma Physics
2018-02-02 v4
Abstract
A 2D slab approximation of the interactions of electrons with intense linearly polarized laser radiation and static electric and magnetic fields is widely used for both numerical simulations and simplified semi-analytical models. It is shown that in this case electron dynamics can be conveniently described in the framework of 3/2 dimensional Hamiltonian approach. The electron acceleration beyond a standard ponderomotive scaling, caused by the synergistic effects of the laser and static electro-magnetic fields, is due to an onset of stochastic electron motion.
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@article{arxiv.1711.06714,
title = {Electron heating in the laser and static electric and magnetic fields},
author = {Yanzeng Zhang and S. I. Krasheninnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06714},
year = {2018}
}