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We discuss a new mechanism for the electron capture in fast ion-atom collisions. Similarly like in the radiative capture, where the electron transfer occurs due to photon emission, within the mechanism under consideration the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 A. B. Voitkiv , B. Najjari , J. Ullrich

We present a transparent and analytically tractable approach to the problem of time-dependent electron transport through tunneling barriers. Using the Single-Electron Approach, we study a model system composed of a time-dependent tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Shmuel Gurvitz , Dmitri Sokolovski

We take advantage of the information provided by use of elliptical polarization in a recent two-electron release time experiment [A.N. Pfeiffer et al., Nature Physics 7, 428 (2011)]. This allows a comparative test of the currently dominant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 X. Wang , J. Tian , A. N. Pfeiffer , C. Cirelli , U. Keller , J. H. Eberly

Several recent attoclock experiments have investigated the fundamental question of a quantum mechanically induced time delay in tunneling ionization via extremely precise photoelectron momentum spectroscopy. The interpretations of those…

We show that interference phenomena plays a big role for the electron yield in ionization of atoms by an ultra-short laser pulse. Our theoretical study of single ionization of atoms driven by few-cycles pulses extends the photoelectron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego Arbo , Emil Persson , Joachim Burgdoerfer

The tunneling ionization of an electron from a p-state in a highly charged ion in the relativistic regime is investigated in a linearly polarized strong laser field. In contrast to the case of an s-state, the tunneling ionization from the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

Consensus has been reached that recollision, as the most important post-tunneling process, is responsible for nonsequential double ionization process in intense infrared laser field, however, its effect has been restricted to interaction…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Xiaolei Hao , Yuxing Bai , Chan Li , Jingyu Zhang , Weidong Li , Weifeng Yang , MingQing Liu , Jing Chen

We study the field-ionization threshold behavior when a Rydberg atom is ionized by a short single-cycle pulse field. Both hydrogen and sodium atoms are considered. The required threshold field amplitude is found to scale \emph{inversely}…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 B. C. Yang , F. Robicheaux

We present a theory illuminating the cross-over from strong-field tunnelling ionization to weak-field multiphoton ionization in the interaction of a classical laser field with a hydrogen atom. A simple formula is derived in which the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Michael Klaiber , John S Briggs

Interaction of a strong laser pulse with matter transfers not only energy but also linear momentum of the photons. Recent experimental advances have made it possible to detect the small amount of linear momentum delivered to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Xiaodan Mao , Hongcheng Ni , Xiaochun Gong , Joachim Burgdörfer , Jian Wu

A formula suitable for a quantitative evaluation of the tunneling effect in a ferromagnetic particle is derived with the help of the instanton method. The tunneling between n-th degenerate states of neighboring wells is dominated by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 J. -Q. Liang , Y. -B. Zhang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , F. -C. Pu

Quantum tunneling reactions play a significant role in chemistry when classical pathways are energetically forbidden, be it in gas phase reactions, surface diffusion, or liquid phase chemistry. In general, such tunneling reactions are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Robert Wild , Markus Nötzold , Malcolm Simpson , Thuy Dung Tran , Roland Wester

Nelson's stochastic mechanics formulates quantum dynamics as a real-time conservative diffusion process in which a particle undergoes Brownian-like motion with a fluctuation amplitude fixed by Planck's constant. While being mathematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Danilo F. Schafaschek , Giovani L. Vasconcelos , Antônio M. S. Macêdo

We consider the time delay of electron detachment from a Coulomb center and two-center systems in the process of ionization. It is shown that the attosecond streaking, most usual method of time delay measure, can be formally described by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vladislav V. Serov , Vladimir L. Derbov , Tatyana A. Sergeeva

We present the mathematical model and numerical calculation results for the tunneling of the wave function in a time-periodic double-well potential. The bi-quadratic potential of a double-well form is used. Based on a mathematical model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Vladimir Dubinko , Oleksandr Mazmanishvili

By developing the preceding work on the fast forward of transient phenomena of quantum tunneling by Khujakulov and Nakamura (Phys. Rev. {\bf A 93}, 022101 (2016) ), we propose a scheme of the exact fast forward of adiabatic control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Katsuhiro Nakamura , Anvar Khujakulov , Sanat Avazbaev , Shumpei Masuda

The ionization dynamics of a two-electron atom in an attosecond XUV-infrared pump-probe experiment is simulated by solving the time-dependent two-electron Schr\"odinger equation. A dramatic change of the double ionization (DI) yield with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 S. Bauch , K. Balzer , M. Bonitz

A vortex can tunnel between two pinning potentials in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate on a time scale of the order of 1s under typical experimental conditions. This makes it possible to detect the tunneling experimentally. We calculate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-06 O. Fialko , A. S. Bradley , J. Brand

Quasi-static models of barrier suppression have played a major role in our understanding of the ionization of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields. Despite their success, in the case of diatomic molecules these studies have so far…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Bartsch , T. Uzer

We explore the characteristics of equilibrium tunneling of electrons from a 3D electrode into a high mobility 2D electron system. For most 2D Landau level filling factors, we find that tunneling can be characterized by a single,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. B. Chan , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West