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The nondipole under-the-barrier dynamics of the electron during strong-field tunneling ionization is investigated, examining the role of the Coulomb field of the atomic core. The common analysis in the strong field approximation is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Pei-Lun He , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We develop the recently proposed analytical R-matrix (ARM) method to encompass strong field ionisation by circularly polarised fields, for atoms with arbitrary binding potentials. Through ARM, the effect of the potential can now be included…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 Jivesh Kaushal , Olga Smirnova

Multielectron tunneling ionization creates ionic coherence crucial for lasing and driving electron motion in molecules. While tunneling is well understood as a single active electron process, less emphasis has been placed on theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Chi-Hong Yuen

Tunnel ionization belongs to the fundamental processes of atomic physics. The so-called two-step model, which describes the ionization as instantaneous tunneling at the electric field maximum and classical motion afterwards with zero exit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Nicolas Teeny , Enderalp Yakaboylu , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We present a theoretical study of the impact of an electrostatic field combined with non-resonant linearly polarized laser pulses on the rotational dynamics of linear molecules. Within the rigid rotor approximation, we solve the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Juan J. Omiste , Rosario González-Férez

We examine time-resolved X-ray diffraction from molecules in the gas phase which undergo nonadiabatic avoided-crossing dynamics involving strongly coupled electrons and nuclei. Several contributions to the signal are identified,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Markus Kowalewski , Kochise Bennett , Shaul Mukamel

Nondipole effects are ubiquitous and crucial in light-matter interaction. However, they are too weak to be directly observed. In strong-field physics, motion of electrons is mainly confined in transverse plane of light fields, which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yankun Dou , Yiqi Fang , Peipei Ge , Yunquan Liu

We study above-threshold ionization (ATI) of atoms in strong elliptical laser fields numerically and analytically. Recent benchmark experiments for H showed that the attoclock offset angle related to each ATI ring increases remarkably with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Jia'nan Wu , Shiqi Shen , Jiayin Che , Shang Wang , Weiyan Li , Guoguo Xin , Yanjun Chen

Real-time simulations of laser-driven electron dynamics contain information about molecular optical properties through all orders in response theory. These properties can be extracted by assuming convergence of the power series expansion of…

Tunneling ionization of an atom in ultrashort laser pulses is considered. When the driving laser pulse is switched-on and -off with a steep slope, the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) shows an edge-effect because of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 M. Klaiber , Q. Z. Lv , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

We employ a recently developed three-dimensional semiclassical model to identify nondipole effects in triple ionization of Ne driven by infrared laser pulses at intensities where electron-electron correlation prevails. This model fully…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Georgios Petros Katsoulis , Matthew Benjamin Peters , Agapi Emmanouilidou

We propose an unconventional electron gun structure in which the emitter is located on a concave cathode surface with a non-uniform electric field. Such a design violates the intuition that an emitter should place close to a uniform…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Cheng-Hung Tsai , Tsun-Hsu Chang , Toshitaka Idehara , Yuusuke Yamaguchi

We have experimentally and theoretically investigated the mixed-field orientation of rotational-state-selected OCS molecules and we achieve strong degrees of alignment and orientation. The applied moderately intense nanosecond laser pulses…

We report on three-dimensional (3D) electron momentum distributions from single ionization of helium by a laser pulse consisting of two counterrotating circularly polarized fields (390 nm and 780 nm). A pronounced 3D low energy structure…

We use three dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (3D--TDSE) to calculate angular electron momentum distributions and photoelectron spectra of atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous fields. An example for such inhomogeneous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. F. Ciappina , J. A. Pérez-Hernández , T. Shaaran , L. Roso , M. Lewenstein

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

Negative ion detachment in bichromatic laser field is considered within the adiabatic theory. The latter represents a recent modification of the famous Keldysh model for multiphoton ionization which makes it quantitatively reliable. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Yu. Kuchiev , V. N. Ostrovsky

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

We study the double ionization of atoms subjected to circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses. We analyze two fundamental ionization processes: the sequential (SDI) and non-sequential (NSDI) double ionization in the light of the rotating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 J. Dubois , C. Chandre , T. Uzer

We compare results of the recent experiment by Herath et al [T. Herath, L. Yan, S. K. Lee, and W. Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043004 (2012)] on strong-field nonadiabatic tunneling in circularly polarized laser fields with the original…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Ingo Barth , Olga Smirnova