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We present ab initio studies of photoelectron spectra for above threshold detachment (ATD) of F$^-$ anions in short, 1300 nm and 1800 nm laser pulses. We identify and assess the importance of electron rescattering in strong-field…

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We explore the physics of electron acceleration in a plasma medium in an effective field theory framework. Employing a multiple Compton scattering mechanism, it is found that the acceleration can be sustained in such a medium so as to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

The interaction of relativistically strong tailored laser pulses with an atomic system is considered. Due to a special tailoring of the laser pulse, the suppression of the relativistic drift of the ionized electron and a dramatic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We explore the ability of two-dimensional periodic atom arrays to produce light amplification and generate laser emission when gain is introduced through external optical pumping. Specifically, we predict that lasing can take place for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Vahagn Mkhitaryan , Lijun Meng , Andrea Marini , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We study coherent backscattering of a monochromatic laser by a dilute gas of cold two-level atoms in the weakly nonlinear regime. The nonlinear response of the atoms results in a modification of both the average field propagation (nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud , Dominique Delande , Christian Miniatura

A comprehensive quantitative rescattering (QRS) theory for describing the production of high-energy photoelectrons generated by intense laser pulses is presented. According to the QRS, the momentum distributions of these electrons can be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhangjin Chen , Anh-Thu Le , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin

Electron capture processes are important in the search for new physics. In this context, a high capture rate is desired. We investigate the possibility of enhancing the electron capture rate by irradiating laser beam to ''atom''. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Takaaki Nomura , Joe Sato , Takashi Shimomura

A high energy power law is a common feature in the spectra of many astrophysical objects. We show that the photons in a relativistic plasma with a variable Lorentz factor go through repeated scattering with electrons to gain energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Mukesh K. Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems, an off-resonant high-frequency circularly polarized electromagnetic field can induce the quasi-stationary bound electron states of repulsive scatterers. As a consequence, the resonant scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev

Relativistic electrons colliding with intense counterpropagating laser pulses are expected to lose energy through radiation reaction. However, we reveal a counterintuitive regime where reflected leptons (including incident electrons,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Xiaofei Shen , Yue-Yue Chen , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We present a theoretical approach to investigate the scattering of polarized electrons from light nuclei using the multipole expansion for the scattering cross section within the framework of the unified electroweak theory. Scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Minh Truong Vo , Vu Dong Tran , Quang Hung Nguyen

Electrons released from clusters through strong Xray pulses show broad kinetic-energy spectra, extending from the atomic excess energy down to the threshold, where usually a strong peak appears. These low-energy electrons are normally…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-07-21 A. Camacho Garibay , U. Saalmann , J. M. Rost

We show that two groups of slow two-level atoms in a weak resonant laser field, are entangled. The considered groups can be separated by a macroscopic distance, and be parts of a larger atomic ensemble. In a dilute regime, for two very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Camalet

We discuss the possibility of non-exponential tunneling ionization of atoms irradiated by intense laser field. This effect can occur at times, which are greater than the lifetime of a system under consideration. The mechanism for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 A. M. Ishkhanyan , V. P. Krainov

Electron-initiated chemistry with chemically relevant electron energies (10-200 eV) is at the heart of several high-energy processes and phenomena. To probe these dissociation and fragmentation reactions with femtosecond resolution requires…

Initial-state symmetry has been underappreciated in strong-field spectroscopies, where laser fields dominate the dynamics. We demonstrate numerically that the transverse photoelectron phase structure, arising from this symmetry, is robust…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Timm Bredtmann , Serguei Patchkovskii

We present analytic expressions for the scattering of light by an extended atomic cloud. We obtain the solution for the mean-field excitation of different atomic spherical distributions driven by an uniform laser, including the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Nicola Piovella

Radiative recombination of a relativistic electron with a highly charged ion in the presence of an intense laser field is considered. Various relativistic effects, caused by the high energy of the incoming electron and its strong coupling…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Müller , A. B. Voitkiv , B. Najjari

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

Strong-field ionization can induce electron motion in both the continuum and the valence shell of the parent ion. Here, we explore their interplay by studying laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) patterns arising from interaction with…