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We investigate the stabilization of a hydrogen atom in circularly polarized laser fields. We use a time-dependent, fully three dimensional approach to study the quantum dynamics of the hydrogen atom subject to high intensity, short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dae-Il Choi , Will Chism

The formation of a regular lattice of quantized vortices in a fluid under rotation is a smoking-gun signature of its superfluid nature. Here we study the vortex lattice in a dilute superfluid gas of bosonic atoms at zero temperature along…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-13 S. K. Adhikari , L. Salasnich

Free electrons provide a powerful tool to probe material properties at atomic-scale spatial resolution. Recent advances in ultrafast electron microscopy enable the manipulation of free electron wavefunctions using laser pulses. It would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ron Ruimy , Alexey Gorlach , Chen Mechel , Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer

This research demonstrates high-repetition-rate laser-accelerated ion beams via dual, intersecting, counterpropagating laser-driven blast waves to precisely shape underdense gas into long-lived near-critical density targets. The collision…

Ionization by relativistically intense laser pulses of finite duration is considered in the framework of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. Our main focus is on the formation of ionization supercontinua. More specifically, when studying…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński

This article reviews recent developments in the physics of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Quantized vortices appear in low-temperature quantum condensed systems as the direct product of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-19 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Michikazu Kobayashi

The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the hydrogen atom and its interaction with coherent intense high-frequency short laser pulses is solved numerically exactly by propagating the single-electron wave packets. Thereby, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Philipp V. Demekhin , David Hochstuhl , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Ionization by relativistically intense short laser pulses is studied in the framework of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. Distinctive patterns are found in the energy probability distributions of photoelectrons. Except of the already…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

For ultracold and Bose-condensed atoms contained in periodic optical potential wells the quantized nature of their motion is clearly visible. The motion of the atomic wavepacket can also be accurately controlled. For those systems the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Morsch , E. Arimondo

The presence of vortices in the ionisation of hydrogen atoms by positrons at intermediate impact energies is investigated. The present findings show that a previously reported minima in the fully-differential cross section is the signature…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Navarrete , R. Della Picca , J. Fiol , R. O. Barrachina

We demonstrate a method to determine the position of single atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice. Atoms are sparsely loaded from a far-off-resonant optical tweezer into a few vertical planes of a cubic optical lattice positioned…

We study the interaction of intense ultrashort laser pulses with cryogenic He jets using 2d/3v relativistic Particle-in-Cell simulations (XOOPIC). Of particular interest are laser intensities $(10^{15}-10^{20})$ W/cm$^2$, pulse lengths $\le…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Shihab , T. Bornath , R. Redmer

Ionization is one of the basic physical processes, occurring when charged particles penetrate atomic matter. When atoms are bombarded by very dense and compact beams of extreme relativistic electrons, two qualitatively new -- and very…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 S. Kim , C. Müller , A. B. Voitkiv

We photoionize laser-cooled atoms with a laser beam possessing spatially periodic intensity modulations to create ultracold neutral plasmas with controlled density perturbations. Laser-induced fluorescence imaging reveals that the density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Castro , P. McQuillen , T. C. Killian

We explore the process of orbital angular momentum (OAM) transfer from a twisted light beam to an electron in atomic ionization within the first Born approximation. The characteristics of the ejected electron are studied regardless of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 I. I. Pavlov , A. D. Chaikovskaia , D. V. Karlovets

We investigate the photoionization dynamics of atoms subjected to intense, ultrashort laser pulses through the use of quantum trajectories. This method provides a unique and consistent framework for examining electron dynamics within a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Taylor Moon , Klaus Bartschat , Nicolas Douguet

We solve the three-dimensional time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a few-cycle circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulse interacting with an oriented target exemplified by an Argon atom, initially in a $3\text{p}_{x}$ or…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. P. J. Martiny , M. Abu-samha , L. B. Madsen

In this review, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical advances in the physics of quantized vortices in dilute atomic-gas Bose--Einstein condensates in a trapping potential, especially focusing on experimental research…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-10 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

We perform ab initio calculations for the hydrogen atom initially in one of the six circular bound states with the principal quantum numbers n = 2, 3 and 4, irradiated by a short circularly polarized laser pulse of 400 nm. The field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jarosław H. Bauer , Zbigniew Walczak

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