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The primal dual hybrid gradient algorithm (PDHG), which is also known as the Arrow-Hurwicz method, is a fundamental algorithm for saddle point problems especially in imaging. It also inspires a great number of influential algorithms such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Shengjie Xu , Bingsheng He

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a material sample is irradiated by intense laser pulses, causing the emission of high harmonics of the incident light. HHG has historically been explained by theories employing…

Attosecond spectroscopy comprises several techniques to probe matter through electrons and photons. One frontier of attosecond methods is to reveal complex phenomena arising from quantum-mechanical correlations in the matter system, in the…

We address nonsequential double ionization induced by strong, linearly polarized laser fields of only a few cycles, considering a physical mechanism in which the second electron is dislodged by the inelastic collision of the first electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , X. Liu , A. Sanpera , M. Lewenstein

Harmonic inversion is introduced as a powerful tool for both the analysis of quantum spectra and semiclassical periodic orbit quantization. The method allows to circumvent the uncertainty principle of the conventional Fourier transform and…

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We analyze interference processes in atomic ionization induced by a two-color laser with fundamental frequency $\omega $ and its second harmonic $2\omega $. The interplay between inter- and intracycle interference processes give rise to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Diego G. Arbó , Sebastián D. López

To each complex saddle point of an action, one can attach a Lefschetz thimble on which the imaginary part of the action is constant. Cauchy theorem states that summation over a set of thimbles produces the exact result. This reorganization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Maksim Ulybyshev , Fakher F. Assaad

High-harmonic generation is typically thought of as a sub-laser-cycle process, with the electron's excursion in the continuum lasting a fraction of the optical cycle. However, it was recently suggested that long-lived Rydberg states can…

We argue that the Lorentzian path integral is a better starting point for quantum cosmology than the Euclidean version. In particular, we revisit the mini-superspace calculation of the Feynman path integral for quantum gravity with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Job Feldbrugge , Jean-Luc Lehners , Neil Turok

Symmetry breaking phase transitions are an example of non-equilibrium processes that require real time treatment, a major challenge in strongly coupled systems without long-lived quasiparticles. Holographic duality provides such an approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-29 Julian Sonner , Adolfo del Campo , Wojciech H. Zurek

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extremely nonlinear effect, where a medium is driven by a strong laser field, generating coherent broadband radiation with photon energies ranging up to the X-ray and pulse durations reaching attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-20 Alexey Gorlach , Ofer Neufeld , Nicholas Rivera , Oren Cohen , Ido Kaminer

In recent articles [Mishima et al., Phys. Rev. A, 66, 033401(2002); Chao, Phys. Rev. A, 72, 053414 (2005)] it was proposed to use the residue theorem for the exact calculation of the transition amplitude describing strong-field ionization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz

When a real saddle equilibrium in a three-dimensional vector field undergoes a homoclinic bifurcation, the associated two-dimensional invariant manifold of the equilibrium closes on itself in an orientable or non-orientable way. We are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Andrus Giraldo , Bernd Krauskopf , Hinke M. Osinga

We develop a general theory of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state systems, based on a weak-correlation expansion of photonic and matter degrees of freedom. Unlike standard HHG theories, which treat light-matter dynamics through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Denis Ilin , Alexander S. Solntsev , Ivan Iorsh

Lifshitz invariant is a symmetry invariant composed of multiple order parameters that contain a single spatial derivative in a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) free energy, which may induce a nonuniform configuration of the order parameters. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-11 Raigo Nagashima , Titouan Mouilleron , Naoto Tsuji

It is beyond the present techniques based on perturbation theory to reveal the nature of phase transitions in strongly interacting field theories. Recently, the holographic approach has provided us with an effective dual description,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Ki-Seok Kim , Kyung Kiu Kim , Youngman Kim , Yumi Ko

High-harmonics generation spectroscopy is a promising tool for resolving electron dynamics and structure in atomic and molecular systems. This scheme, commonly described by the strong field approximation, requires a deep insight into the…

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) have diverse applications spanning physics, optimal control, game theory, and imaging sciences. This research introduces a first-order optimization-based technique for HJ PDEs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Tingwei Meng , Wenbo Hao , Siting Liu , Stanley J. Osher , Wuchen Li

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) serves as a competitive instrument in searching the any-index saddle points and constructing the solution landscape of complex systems. The Lagrangian multiplier terms in HiSD ensure the Stiefel manifold…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

We analyze strong field atomic dynamics semiclassically, based on a full time-dependent description with the Hermann-Kluk propagator. From the properties of the exact classical trajectories, in particular the accumulation of action in time,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gerd van de Sand , Jan M Rost