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Quasi-free field-driven electron trajectories are a key element of strong-field dynamics. Upon recollision with the parent ion, the energy transferred from the field to the electron may be released as attosecond duration XUV emission in the…

The long-standing challenge to describing charged particle dynamics in strong classical electromagnetic fields is how to incorporate classical radiation, classical radiation reaction and quantized photon emission into a consistent unified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun

A model describing the electronic transitions in an atom subject to a strong high frequency laser pulse is proposed in the velocity gauge. The model accounts for the initial state coupling with the the remaining discrete and continuum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 V. D. Rodríguez

We study non-classical pathways and quantum interference in enhanced ionisation of diatomic molecules in strong laser fields using machine learning techniques. Quantum interference provides a bridge, which facilitates intramolecular…

The ionization of an atom by a high-frequency intense laser pulse, where the energy of a single-photon is sufficient to ionize the system, is investigated from first principles. It is shown that as a consequence of an AC Stark effect in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Philipp V Demekhin , Lorenz S Cederbaum

Strong-field ionization is the cornerstone of attosecond physics, which has been extensively studied under coherent-state driving. Recently, the interface between attosecond physics and quantum optics has emerged as a new frontier. Yet,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Haodong Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Peizeng Li , Zijian Lyu , Yunquan Liu

We revisit a recently proposed scheme [M.F. Ciappina et al 2019 Phys. Rev. A 99 043405] for accurate measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensities in a focus of high-power laser beams. The method is based on the observation of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 M. F. Ciappina , S. V. Popruzhenko

Photoionization of an atom $A$ by a strong laser field in the presence of a spatially well-separated neighboring atom $B$ is considered. The laser field frequency is assumed to lie below the ionization potential of atom $A$ and be resonant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 J. Fedyk , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

Using a combination of semiclassical and recently developed wave packet propagation techniques we find the quantum self-ionization process of highly excited ions moving in magnetic fields which has its origin in the energy transfer from the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Vladimir Melezhik , Peter Schmelcher

In this paper, Bohmian mechanics is introduced to the intense laser-atom physics. The motion of atomic electron in intense laser field is obtained from the Bohm-Newton equation. We find the quantum potential that dominates the quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 X. Y. Lai , Qing-yu Cai , M. S. Zhan

We revisit the stabilization of ionization of atoms subjected to a superintense laser pulse using nonlinear dynamics. We provide an explanation for the lack of complete ionization at high intensity and for the decrease of the ionization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Norman , C. Chandre , T. Uzer , Peijie Wang

We study formation and evolution of the electron wave-packets in the process of strong field ionization of various atomic targets. Our study is based on reformulating the problem in terms of conditional amplitudes, i.e., the amplitudes…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 I. A. Ivanov , A. S. Kheifets , Kyung Taec Kim

We analyze, quantum mechanically, the dynamics of ionization with a strong, circularly polarized, laser field. We show that the main source for non-adiabatic effects is connected to an effective barrier lowering due to the laser frequency.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk

We investigated electron emissions in strong field enhanced ionization of asymmetric diatomic molecules by quantum calculations. It is demonstrated that the widely-used intuitive physical pic- ture, i.e., electron wave packet direct…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cheng Huang , Pengfei Lan , Yueming Zhou , Qingbin Zhang , Kunlong Liu , Peixiang Lu

The interaction of strong laser fields with matter intrinsically provides powerful tools to image transient dynamics with an extremely high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we study strong-field ionisation of laser-aligned molecules and…

We present a mixed quantum-classical approach to strong-field ionization - a semiclassical two-step model with quantum input. In this model the initial conditions for classical trajectories that simulate electron wave packet after…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski , M. Lein

Quantum trajectory calculations for electrons are a useful tool in the field of molecular dynamics, e.g. to understand processes in ultrafast spectroscopy. They have, however, two limitation: On the one hand, such calculations are typically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Axel Schild

The evolution of an electron beam colliding head-on with a strong plane-wave field is investigated in the framework of strong-field QED including radiation-reaction effects due to photon emission. Employing a kinetic approach to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-07 Norman Neitz , Antonino Di Piazza

We develop a time-dependent theory to investigate electron dynamics and photoionization processes of diatomic molecules interacting with strong laser fields including electron-electron correlation effects. We combine the recently formulated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Henrik R. Larsson , Sebastian Bauch , Lasse Kragh Sørensen , Michael Bonitz

We review the main aspects of multiple photoionization processes in atoms exposed to intense, short wavelength radiation. The main focus is the theoretical framework for the description of such processes as well as the conditions under…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 P. Lambropoulos , G. M. Nikolopoulos