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Double electron ionisation process occurs when an intense laser pulse interacts with atoms or molecules. Exact {\it ab initio} numerical simulation of such a situation is extremely computer resources demanding, thus often one is forced to…

Ionization of hydrogen-like ions by intense, circularly polarized laser pulses is analyzed under the scope of the relativistic strong-field approximation. We show that, for specific parameters of the laser field, the energy spectra of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

The electron dynamics of rare gas clusters in laser fields is investigated quantum mechanically by means of time-dependent density functional theory. The mechanism of early inner and outer ionization is revealed. The formation of an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Bauer , A. Macchi

Electron-impact ionization of an atom or ion in the presence of a neighboring atom is studied. The latter is first collisionally excited by the incident electron, whose energy is assumed to be high but nonrelativistic. Afterwards, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 F. Grüll , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

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

When atoms and molecules are ionized by laser pulses of finite duration and increasingly high intensities, the validity of the much used dipole approximation, in which the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the external field are…

We have investigated non-dipole effects in the interaction of a hydrogen atom with elliptically polarized laser pulses of intensity 10$^{14}$ W/cm$^2$ with about 8 fs duration. The study was performed within the framework of a hybrid…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Vladimir S. Melezhik , Sara Shadmehri

The processes of energy gain and redistribution in a dense gas subject to an intense ultrashort laser pulse are investigated theoretically for the case of high-pressure argon. The electrons released via strong-field ionization and driven by…

The probability of photoionization of a heavy hydrogen like ion is calculated within the relativistic perturbation theory. The Coulomb potential of a heavy nucleus is taken into account accurately by usage of the corresponding solutions of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 O. Novak , M. Diachenko , R. Kholodov

The interaction of a short, few-cycle light pulse and an atom which is prepared initially in a superposition of two stationary states is shown to exhibit strong signatures of atomic coherence. For a given waveform of the laser pulse,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Viktor Ayadi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Peter Dombi , Peter Foldi

Collision of laser-driven subrelativistic high density ion flows provides a way to create extremely compressed ion conglomerates and study their properties. This paper presents a theoretical study of the electrodynamic implosion of ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 S. Yu. Guskov , Ph. Korneev , M. Murakami

We study the ionization process involving antiproton and hydrogen in the energy range between 0.1 keV to 500 keV, using single center close coupling approximation. We construct the scattering wave function using B-spline bases. The results…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S Sahoo , S C Mukherjee , H R J Walters

We study theoretically the dipole radiation of a hydrogen atom driven by an intense sub-cycle pulse. The time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for the system is solved by ab initio calculation to obtain the dipole response. Remarkably, a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Wei-Chun Chu , John C. Travers , Philip St. J. Russell

A new simulation box setup is introduced for the precise description of the wavepacket evolution of two electronic systems in intense laser pulses. In this box, the regions of the hydrogen molecule H$_{2} $, and singly and doubly ionized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Mohsen Vafaee , Firoozeh Sami , Babak Shokri , Behnaz Buzari , Hassan Sabzyan

The ionization of a one-dimensional model Helium atom in short laser pulses using time-dependent density functional theory is investigated. We calculate ionization probabilities as a function of laser intensity by approximating the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Wilken , D. Bauer

We revisit the stabilization of ionization of atoms subjected to a superintense laser pulse using nonlinear dynamics. We provide an explanation for the lack of complete ionization at high intensity and for the decrease of the ionization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Norman , C. Chandre , T. Uzer , Peijie Wang

In this work we study the single ionization of hydrogen and helium by the impact of a punctual Coulomb projectile. To interpretate the cross section we introduce a series of Pad\'{e} approximant. The nodes of the denominator of the Pad\'{e}…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 J. E. Miraglia

Ionization of acetylene by linearly-polarized, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser pulses is modelled using time-dependent density functional theory. Several laser wavelengths are considered including one that produces direct ionization to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Daniel Dundas , Peter Mulholland , Abigail Wardlow , Alejandro de la Calle

Atoms and molecules can become ionized during the scattering of a slow, heavy particle off a bound electron. Such an interaction involving leptophilic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) is a promising possible explanation for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 B. M. Roberts , V. V. Flambaum , G. F. Gribakin

Ionization of highly charged relativistic ions by neutral atoms and ions is considered. Numerical results of recently developed computer codes based on the relativistic Born and the equivalent-photon approximations are presented. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 G. Baur , I. L. Beigman , V. P Shevelko , I. Yu. Tolstikhina , Th. Stoehlker