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Ionization of an atom or molecule presents surprising richness beyond our current understanding: strong-field ionization with low-frequency fields recently revealed unexpected kinetic energy structures (1, 2). A solid grasp on electron…

Strong-field ionization (SFI) has been shown to prepare wave packets with few-femtosecond periods. Here, we explore whether this technique can be extended to the attosecond time scale. We introduce an intuitive model for predicting the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Stefan Pabst , Hans Jakob Wörner

To measure and control the electron motion in atoms and molecules by the strong laser field on the attosecond time scale is one of the research frontiers of atomic and molecular photophysics. It involves many new phenomena and processes and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Chao Chen , Jiayin Che , Shang Wang , Guoguo Xin , Yanjun Chen

We present an approach for in situ dynamic four-dimensional (4D=3D space + 1D time) laser induced strong field ionization tomography, particularly suited for measuring far-from-equilibrium systems, such as supersonic and hypersonic pulsed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Noam Shlomo , Eugene Frumker

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

Taking N2 and O2 as examples, we theoretically study the post-ionization dynamics of molecules in strong laser fields using a density matrix method for open systems, focusing on the effect of ionization-produced coherence on the dynamics of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Shan Xue , Wenli Yang , Ping Li , Yuxuan Zhang , Pengji Ding , Song-Feng Zhao , Hongchuan Du , Anh-Thu Le

Intense 3-cycle pulses (10 fs) of 800 nm laser light are utilized to measure energy distributions of ions emitted following Coulomb explosion of Ar$_n$ clusters ($n$=400-900) upon their irradiation by peak intensitis of 5$\times$10$^{14}$ W…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2010-05-21 D. Mathur , F. A. Rajgara , A. R. Holkundkar , N. K. Gupta

We provide a brief review of how phase space techniques are explored within strong-field and attosecond science. This includes a broad overview of the existing landscape, with focus on strong-field ionisation and rescattering, high-order…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 H. Chomet , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

Aiming at the investigation of above-threshold ionization in super-strong laser fields with highly charged ions, we develop a Coulomb-corrected strong field approximation (SFA). The influence of the Coulomb potential of the atomic core on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Klaiber , Enderalp Yakaboylu , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

The interaction of intense laser pulses with nano-scale particles leads to the production of high-energy electrons, ions, neutral atoms, neutrons and photons. Up to now, investigations have focused on near-infrared to X-ray laser pulses…

This paper has been prepared by the Symphony collaboration (University of Warsaw, Uniwersytet Jagiello\'nski, DESY/CNR and ICFO) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the "simple man's models" which underlie most of the phenomena that…

A nonlinear interferometry scheme is described theoretically to induce and resolve electron wave- function beating on time scales shorter than the optical cycle of the time-delayed pump and probe pulses. By employing two moderately intense…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christian Ott , Philipp Raith , Thomas Pfeifer

We derive an analytical formula for the ionization rate of neutral atoms and molecules in a strong monochromatic field. Our model is based on the strong-field approximation with transition amplitudes calculated by an extended saddle point…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kim Kjeldsen , Lars Bojer Madsen

Resolving in time the dynamics of light absorption by atoms and molecules, and the electronic rearrangement this induces, is among the most challenging goals of attosecond spectroscopy. The attoclock is an elegant approach to this problem,…

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

Two-color laser fields offer significantly enhanced control over electron excitation dynamics under ultrashort intense laser pulses compared to monochromatic fields. However, their strong nonlinearity necessitates computationally expensive…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 Mizuki Tani , Kenichi L. Ishikawa , Tomohito Otobe

We develop the eikonal perturbation theory to describe the strong-field ionization by finite laser pulses. This approach in the first order with respect to the binding potential (the so-called generalized eikonal approximation) avoids a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 F. Cajiao Vélez , K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński

A versatile semiclassical approximation for intense laser-atom processes is presented. This uniform approximation is no more complicated than the frequently-used multi-dimensional saddle-point approximation and far superior, since it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , H. Schomerus , W. Becker

Ionization of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields is a fundamental process in many fields of research, especially in the emerging field of attosecond science. So far, demonstrably accurate data have only been acquired for atomic…

A precise understanding of mechanisms governing the dynamics of electrons in atoms and molecules subjected to intense laser fields has a key importance for the description of attosecond processes such as the high-harmonic generation and…