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A Fokker-Planck model for the interaction of fast ions with the thermal electrons in a quasi-neutral plasma is developed. When the fast ion population has a net flux (i.e. the distribution of the fast ions is anisotropic in velocity space)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Brian Appelbe , Mark Sherlock , Omar El-Amiri , Chris Walsh , Jeremy Chittenden

A classical approximation to time dependent quantum mechanical scattering in the M\o{}ller formalism is presented. Numerically, our approach is similar to a standard Classical-Trajectory-Monte-Carlo calculation. Conceptually, however, our…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tihamer Geyer , Jan M Rost

With a recently proposed quasiclassical ansatz [Geyer and Rost, J. Phys. B 35 (2002) 1479] it is possible to perform classical trajectory ionization calculations on many electron targets. The autoionization of the target is prevented by a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tihamer Geyer

Above-threshold ionization (ATI) results from strong field laser-matter interaction and it is one of the fundamental processes that may be used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular target.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Noslen Suárez , Alexis Chacón , Marcelo Ciappina , Jens Biegert , Maciej Lewenstein

During multi-photon ionization of an atom it is well understood how the involved photons transfer their energy to the ion and the photoelectron. However, the transfer of the photon linear momentum is still not fully understood. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Benjamin Willenberg , Jochen Maurer , Benedikt W. Mayer , Ursula Keller

Strong-field enhanced ionization (EI) is a phenomenon in which stretching of interatomic bonds into a distorted molecular geometry leads to an increase in the tunneling ionization rate driven by a strong field. Isolating the momentum…

Strong field ionization provides a unique mean to address complex dynamics of an electron in competing Coulomb and laser fields. Recent streak camera experiment (K\"ubel, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 183201) analyzed asymmetries in the…

Understanding the dynamic behavior of biomolecules is fundamental to elucidating biological function and facilitating drug discovery. While Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations provide a rigorous physical basis for studying these dynamics,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-19 Liang Shi , Jiarui Lu , Junqi Liu , Chence Shi , Zhi Yang , Jian Tang

Feynman's path integral approach is to sum over all possible spatio-temporal paths to reproduce the quantum wave function and the corresponding time evolution, which has enormous potential to reveal quantum processes in classical view.…

The dynamics and processes involved in particle-molecule scattering, including nuclear dynamics, are described and analyzed using various quantum information quantities throughout the different stages of the scattering. The main process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin Mendez , Federico M. Pont

Radiation hydrodynamical transport of ionization fronts in the next generation of cosmological reionization simulations holds the promise of predicting UV escape fractions from first principles as well as investigating the role of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel J. Whalen , Michael L. Norman

Attosecond angular streaking measurements have revealed deep insights into the timing of tunnel ionization processes of atoms in intense laser fields. So far experiments of this type have been performed only with a cold-target recoil-ion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Matthias Weger , Jochen Maurer , André Ludwig , Lukas Gallmann , Ursula Keller

We experimentally demonstrate spatiotemporal steering of photoelectron emission in multiphoton above-threshold single ionization of atoms exposed to a phase-controlled orthogonally polarized two-color (OTC) laser pulse. Spatial and energy…

The present work explores quantitative limits to the Single-Active Electron (SAE) approximation, often used to deal with strong-field ionization and subsequent attosecond dynamics. Using a time-dependent multi\-configuration approach,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jean-Nicolas Vigneau , Tung Nguyen-Dang , Eric Charron , Osman Atabek

Strong-field ionization of atoms by circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses produces a donut-shaped electron momentum distribution. Within the dipole approximation this distribution is symmetric with respect to the polarization plane.…

The intermediate domain of strong-field ionization between the tunneling and the multiphoton regimes is investigated using the strong field approximation and the imaginary-time method. An intuitive model for the dynamics is developed which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Klaiber , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

Over the past decade, experimental microscopy and spectroscopy have made significant progress in the study of the morphological, optical, electronic and transport properties of materials. These developments include higher spatial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-12 Simone Taioli , Maurizio Dapor

For atoms embedded in dense plasma, the plasma screening effects will greatly alter their structure and dynamics, and then determine the radiation transport properties of the plasma. In the present work, a new statistical model is proposed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Fuyang Zhou , Yizhi Qu , Junwen Gao , Yulong Ma , Yong Wu , Jianguo Wang

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, i.e., the idea that the evolution of a quantum system is determined as a sum over all the possible trajectories that would take the system from the initial to its final state of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Charles W. Robson , Yaraslau Tamashevich , Tapio T. Rantala , Marco Ornigotti

Quantum calculations of tunneling in strong-field ionization (SFI) predict intricate momentum distributions due to sub-laser-cycle attosecond electron dynamics. These are obscured in most experiments by the dominance of inter-cycle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Nicholas Werby , Adi Natan , Ruaridh Forbes , Philip Bucksbaum