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The locally constant field approximation (LCFA) has to date underpinned the numerical simulation of quantum processes in laser-plasma physics and astrophysics, but its validity has recently been questioned in the parameter regime of current…

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In the recent work of Vanne and Saenz [Phys. Rev. A 75, 063403 (2007)] the quasistatic limit of the velocity gauge strong-field approximation describing the ionization rate of atomic or molecular systems exposed to linearly polarized laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Bauer

We explore a class of effective field theory models of cosmic acceleration involving a metric and a single scalar field. These models can be obtained by starting with a set of ultralight pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons whose couplings to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-16 Jolyon K. Bloomfield , Eanna E. Flanagan

The weak field approximation (WFA) is a conceptually simple and computationally light method for inferring the magnetic field strength and its orientation in the Sun's atmosphere. In this work we study the validity and limitations of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-09 Rebecca Centeno

We apply the covariant derivative expansion of the Coleman-Weinberg potential to the sfermion sector in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, matching it to the relevant dimension-6 operators in the standard model effective field…

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Sources of energy errors resulting from the replacement of the physical Coulomb interaction by its long-range $\mathrm{erfc}(\mu r)/r$ approximation are explored. It is demonstrated that the results can be dramatically improved and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Andreas Savin , Jacek Karwowski

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

We report on electron momentum distributions from single ionization of Ar in strong orthogonally polarized two-color (OTC) laser fields measured with the COLTRIMS technique. We study the effect of Coulomb focusing whose signature is a cusp…

By performing a joint theoretical and experimental investigation on the high-order above-threshold ionization (HATI) spectrum, the dominant role of the 3rd-return-recollision trajectories in the region near the cutoff due to the ionic…

Coulomb corrections for quasi-elastic scattering of electrons by nuclei are calculated using eikonal distorted waves. Corrections to the lowest-order eikonal approximation are included in order to obtain accurate results. Spin-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Tjon , S. J. Wallace

An unprecedented increase of kinetic energy of laser accelerated heavy ions is demonstrated. Ultra thin gold foils have been irradiated by an ultra short laser pulse at an intensity of $6\times 10^{19}$ W/cm$^{2}$. Highly charged gold ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Braenzel , A. A. Andreev , K. Platonov , M. Klingsporn , L. Ehrentraut , W. Sandner , M. Schnürer

The use of an intense ultrashort laser pulse to induce electron polarization has been proposed in existing literature. The Python programming language is used to recreate the local constant crossed-field approximation (LCFA) with the aim of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Katherine D. Ranjbar , Emily Snyder , Alice Snyder , Vahid H. Ranjbar

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

In our model the electron dynamics are described by a two-state approximation. This might appear a rough approximation since it neglects coupling through excited electronic states and ionization channels. However at high intensity (laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J F McCann , Liang-You Peng , I D Williams

In this paper, the ionization and recombination coefficients of dense semiclassical hydrogen plasma on the basis of the effective interaction potential have been investigated. For this goal the Bohr$-$Lindhard method and method phase…

The dynamics of electric field generation and radial acceleration of ions by a laser pulse of relativistic intensity propagating in an underdense plasma has been investigated using an one-dimensional electrostatic, ponderomotive model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-30 A. Macchi , F. Ceccherini , F. Cornolti , S. Kar , M. Borghesi

This paper theoretically analyzes the behavior of an atom driven by a strong electro-magnetic field. Moreover, besides traditional quantum mechanics method, we also investigate semiclassical approaches to this problem. We first performed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Renjing Xu , Donghao Zhang , Anatoli Kheifets , Igor Ivanov

Motivated by the seminal work of Schwinger, we obtain explicit closed form expressions for the one-loop effective action in a constant electromagnetic field. We discuss both massive and massless charged scalars and spinors in two, three,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Steven K. Blau , Matt Visser , Andreas Wipf

An accurate non-gradient-expansion based correction to Thomas--Fermi is developed using solvable model. The used model is a system of $N$ non-interacting electrons moving independently in the Coulomb field of the nuclear charge. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexey Sergeev , Raka Jovanovic , Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

The problem of interacting electrons moving under the influence of a strong magnetic field in two dimensions on a finite disk is reconsidered. First, the results of exact diagonalizations for up to $N=9$ electrons for Coulomb as well as for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Kasner , W. Apel