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Strong-field photoelectron holography denotes the interference of various electron paths in laser-induced ionization of atoms, leading to interference patterns in the final momentum distribution. For a quantitative description of holography…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Simon Brennecke , Manfred Lein

Strong-field quantum electronics is emerging as a potential candidate in information processing but still coherence vs decoherence is a primary concern of the concept. Strong-field coherent processes in band gap materials have led during…

Strong-field ionization of polar molecules contains rich dynamical processes such as tunneling, excitation, and Stark shift. These processes occur on a sub-cycle time scale and are difficult to distinguish in ultrafast measurements. Here,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Jia-Yin Che , Chao Chen , Shang Wang , Guo-Guo Xin , Yan-Jun Chen

With the classical three-dimensional ensemble model, we have investigated the microscopic recollision dynamics in nonsequential double ionization of helium by 800 nm laser pulses at 2.0 PW/cm^2. We demonstrate that the asymmetric energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Yueming Zhou , Qing Liao , Peixiang Lu

When intense light irradiates a quantum system, an ionizing electron recollides with its parent ion within the same light cycle and, during that very brief (few femtosecond) encounter, its kinetic energy sweeps from low to high energy and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Graham G. Brown , Dong Hyuk Ko , Chunmei Zhang , P. B. Corkum

This article is concerned with a new filtered two-step variational integrator for solving the charged-particle dynamics in a mildly non-uniform moderate or strong magnetic field with a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon$ inversely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Ting Li , Bin Wang

We study the electron-impact induced ionization of O$_{2}$ from threshold to 120 eV using the electron spectroscopy method. Our approach is simple in concept and embodies the ion source with a collision chamber and a mass spectrometer with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 R. A. Lomsadze , M. R. Gochitashvili , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , M. Schulz

We report on the unambiguous observation of the sub-cycle ionization bursts in sequential strong-field double ionization of H$_2$ and their disentanglement in molecular frame photoelectron angular distributions. This observation was made…

Recent progress in the study of the photon emission from highly-charged heavy ions is reviewed. These investigations show that high-$Z$ ions provide a unique tool for improving the understanding of the electron-electron and electron-photon…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sephan Fritzsche , Paul Indelicato , Thomas Stohlker

High-energy, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable, sub-cycle, mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses can provide unique opportunities of exploring phase-sensitive strong-field light-matter interactions in atoms, molecules, and solids. In the mid-IR…

A high-intensity laser beam propagating through a dense plasma drives a strong current that robustly sustains a strong quasi-static Mega Tesla-level azimuthal magnetic field. The transverse laser field efficiently accelerates electrons in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Z. Gong , F. Mackenroth , T. Wang , X. Q. Yan , T. Toncian , A. V. Arefiev

A method of the mid-IR-laser microscopy has been proposed for the investigation of the large-scale electrically and recombination active defects in semiconductors and non-destructive inspection of semiconductor materials and structures in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-17 V. P. Kalinushkin , V. A. Yuryev , O. V. Astafiev

It is shown that static longitudinal and transverse electric fields can significantly alter electron acceleration by a long laser beam in a sub-critical plasma, enabling generation of super-ponderomotive electrons. The role of the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. V. Arefiev , A. P. L. Robinson , V. N. Khudik , B. N. Breizman , M. Schollmeier

The well-known ponderomotive force, arising from the interaction of matter and light, has critical implications across a broad range of fields from laser fusion and astrophysics to laser diagnostics and even pulsed-power experiments. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 James R. Young , Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain

We investigate the ionization dynamics of Argon atoms irradiated by an ultrashort intense laser of a wavelength up to 3100 nm, addressing the momentum distribution of the photoelectrons with near-zero-energy. We find a surprising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Q. Z. Xia , D. F. Ye , L. B. Fu , X. Y. Han , J. Liu

When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation. When exposed to an intense background field a nonlinear effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 A. J. Macleod , J. P. Edwards , T. Heinzl , B. King , S. V. Bulanov

We investigate dissociative single and double ionization of HeH+ induced by intense femtosecond laser pulses. By employing a semi-classical model with nuclear trajectories moving on field-dressed surfaces and ionization events treated as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Lun Yue , Philipp Wustelt , A. Max Sayler , Gerhard G. Paulus , Stefanie Gräfe

When intense laser fields interact with nanoscale targets, strong-field physics meets plasmonic near-field enhancement and sub-wavelength localization of light. Photoemission spectra reflect the associated attosecond optical and electronic…

Measuring an electric field waveform beyond radio frequencies is often accomplished via a second-order nonlinear interaction with a laser pulse shorter than half of the field's oscillation period. However, synthesizing such a gate pulse is…

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics offers a unique window into non-perturbative phenomena such as vacuum pair production, in which electron--positron pairs are created from the vacuum in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ivo Schulthess