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Electron accelerators with higher and higher longitudinal field gradients are desirable, as they allow for the production of high energy beams by means of compact and cheap setups. The new laser-plasma acceleration technique appears to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianluca Geloni , Evgeni Saldin , Evgeni Schneidmiller , Mikhail Yurkov

We propose a novel method to describe realistically ionization processes with absorbing boundary conditions in basis expansion within the formalism of the so-called Non-Adiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics. This theory couples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mathias Uhlmann , Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

Adiabatic topological pumping enables robust transport of energy and information, yet its operational speed is fundamentally constrained by the instantaneous adiabatic condition, which necessitates prohibitively slow parameter variations.…

Photon acceleration (PA) driven by ultra-relativistic electron beams offers a promising approach to generating high-power, high-frequency coherent radiation sources. While current methods typically rely on external optical laser pulses…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Chaolu Ding , Xuesong Geng , Liangliang Ji

Entanglement distribution between trapped-atom quantum memories, viz. single atoms in optical cavities, is addressed. In most scenarios, the rate of entanglement distribution depends on the efficiency with which the state of traveling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mohsen Razavi , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

We study effects of nonadiabatic couplings in a model of a diatomic molecule in the context of attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. By using a model system consisting of four diabatic electronic states and with a variable strength…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Nikolaj S. W. Ravn , Lars Bojer Madsen

An all-optical centimeter-scale laser-plasma positron accelerator is modeled to produce quasi-monoenergetic beams with tunable ultra-relativistic energies. A new principle elucidated here describes the trapping of divergent positrons that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Aakash A. Sahai

The rapid progress that plasma wakefield accelerators are experiencing is now posing the question as to whether they could be included in the design of the next generation of high-energy electron-positron colliders. However, the typical…

While laser-plasma accelerators have demonstrated a strong potential in the acceleration of electrons up to giga-electronvolt energies, few experimental tools for studying the acceleration physics have been developed. In this paper, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 C. Thaury , K. Ta Phuoc , S. Corde , P. Brijesh , G. Lambert , S. P. D. Mangles , M. S. Bloom , S. Kneip , V. Malka

Charged particle accelerators play a pivotal role in scientific research, industry, and medical applications. Among them, radiofrequency (RF) accelerators offer a promising approach for achieving high-energy particle acceleration in compact…

Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) use the nearfields created when a laser pulse impinges on a dielectric structure to accelerate charged particles. We provide an overview of the theory of operation of photon driven accelerators, from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 N. Schonenberger , P. Hommelhoff

Linear acceleration in free space is a topic that has been studied for over 20 years, and its ability to eventually produce high-quality, high energy multi-particle bunches has remained a subject of great interest. Arguments can certainly…

Achieving high-quality electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators critically relies on density tailoring to control electron dynamics during injection, acceleration, and extraction. We report on the experimental observation of electron…

This report presents a new approach for treating the coupling of electrons and nuclei in quantum mechanical calculations for molecules and condensed matter. It includes the standard "Born-Oppenheimer approximation" as a special case but…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Gerald I. Kerley

An accurate theory describing adiabatic following of the dark, nonabsorbing state in the three-level system is developed. An analytical solution for the wave function of the particle experiencing Raman excitation is found as an expansion in…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. N. Shakhmuratov , J. Odeurs

Nonadiabatic corrections in molecules composed of a few atoms are considered. It is demonstrated that a systematic perturbative expansion around the adiabatic solution is possible, with the expansion parameter being the electron-nucleus…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof Pachucki , Jacek Komasa

We show a method to accelerate quantum adiabatic transport of identical spinless particles interacting with each other by developing the preceding fast-forward scaling theory formed for one-particle systems [Masuda and Nakamura, {\it Proc.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shumpei Masuda

Different electron acceleration regimes in the evanescent field of a surface plasma wave are studied by considering the interaction of a test electron with the high-frequency electromagnetic field of a surface wave. The non-relativistic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 C. Riconda , M. Raynaud , T. Vialis , M. Grech

Dynamics of neutral atoms in nonuniform magnetic fields, typical of quadrupole magnetic traps, is considered by applying an accurate method for solving nonlinear systems of differential equations. This method is more general than the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. I. Yukalov

Beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators typically use the external injection scheme to ensure controllable beam quality at injection. However, the externally injected witness bunch may exhibit a non-Gaussian transverse density…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Linbo Liang , Guoxing Xia , Alexander Pukhov , John Patrick Farmer