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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

A comprehensive theoretical approach to describe the electron-ion radiative recombination in the presence of intense, short laser pulses, which accounts for nondipole corrections is presented. It is based on the relativistic Coulomb-Volkov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Deeksha Kanti , M. M. Majczak , J. Z. Kamiński , Liang-You Peng , K. Krajewska

We explore the impact of optical excitation using two interfering ultrashort optical pulses on ultrafast magnetization dynamics. Our investigation focuses on Pt/Co/Pt multilayers and TbCo alloy samples, employing a dual pump approach. We…

The coherent interaction with ultrashort light pulses is a powerful strategy for monitoring and controlling the dynamics of wave packets in all states of matter. As light presents an oscillation period of a few femtoseconds ($T=2.6$~fs in…

We measure the dynamics of a non-classical optical field using two-time second-order correlations in conjunction with pulsed excitation. The technique quantifies single-photon purity and coherence during the excitation-decay cycle of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Edward B. Flagg , Sergey V. Polyakov , Tim Thomay , Glenn S. Solomon

In the first part of this paper, the different distinguishable pathways and regions of the single and sequential double ionization are determined and discussed. It is shown that there are two distinguishable pathways for the single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Firoozeh Sami , Mohsen Vafaee , Babak Shokri

When an intense, few-cycle light pulse impinges on a dielectric or semiconductor material, the electric field will interact nonlinearly with the solid, driving a coherent current. An asymmetry of the ultrashort,…

This paper concerns the theory of non-recollisional ionization or detachment of atoms or ions by intense few-cycle pulses. It is shown that in certain conditions of pulse duration, peak intensity and carrier-envelope phase, the ionization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 C. C. Chirila , R. M. Potvliege

We present a novel quantum-classical approach to non-adiabatic dynamics, deduced from the coupled electronic and nuclear equations in the framework of the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wave function. The method is based on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Seung Kyu Min , Federica Agostini , E. K. U. Gross

The dynamics of single laser-driven electrons and many particle systems with spin are investigated on the basis of a classical theory. We demonstrate that the spin forces can alter the electron dynamics in an ultra-relativistic laser field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Meng Wen , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The attosecond ultrafast ionization dynamics of correlated two- or many-electron systems have, so far, been mainly addressed investigating atomic systems. In the case of single ionization, it is well known that electron-electron correlation…

Exciton pulses transport excitation and entanglement adiabatically through Rydberg aggregates, assemblies of highly excited light atoms, which are set into directed motion by resonant dipole-dipole interaction. Here, we demonstrate the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 K. Leonhardt , S. Wüster , J. M. Rost

We develop a new model of laser-matter interaction based on Optical Bloch Equations, which includes photo-ionization, impact ionization, and various relaxation processes typical of dielectric materials. This approach is able to describe the…

Turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of nonthermal particles in space and astrophysical plasmas. By means of 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate that turbulence in low-$\beta$ plasmas ($\beta$ is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

The electron residual energy originated from the stochastic heating in under-dense field-ionized plasma is here investigated. The optical response of plasma is initially modeled by using the concept of two counter-propagating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Elnaz Khalilzadeh , Jam Yazdanpanah , Jafar Jahanpanah , Amir Chakhmachi , Elnaz Yazdani

If the photon energy is much less than the electron binding energy, ionization of an atom by a strong optical field is often described in terms of electron tunneling through the potential barrier resulting from the superposition of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Antonia Karamatskou , Stefan Pabst , Robin Santra

A novel mixed quantum-classical approach to simulating nonadiabatic dynamics of molecules at metal surfaces is presented. The method combines the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion approach for the quantum electronic degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Samuel L. Rudge , Christoph Kaspar , Robin L. Grether , Steffen Wolf , Gerhard Stock , Michael Thoss

The random walk of photons in a tight-binding lattice is known to exhibit diffusive motion similar to classical random walks under decoherence, clearly illustrating the quantum-to-classical transition. In this study, we reveal that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

A three-dimensional semiclassical model is used to study double ionization of Ar when driven by a near-infrared and near-single-cycle laser pulse for intensities ranging from 0.85$\times$10$^{14}$ W/cm$^{2}$ to 5$\times$10$^{14}$…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 A. Chen , M. Kübel , B. Bergues , M. F. Kling , A. Emmanouilidou

We address nonsequential double ionization induced by strong, linearly polarized laser fields of only a few cycles, considering a physical mechanism in which the second electron is dislodged by the inelastic collision of the first electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , X. Liu , A. Sanpera , M. Lewenstein