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The dynamics of light-matter interactions in the realm of strong-field ionization has been a focal point and has attracted widespread interest. We present the eTraj.jl program package, designed to implement established…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Mingyu Zhu , Hongcheng Ni , Jian Wu

High-resolution photoelectron momentum distributions of Xe atoms ionized by 800-nm linearly polarized laser fields have been traced at intensities from 1.1*1013 to 3.5*1013W/cm2 using velocity-map imaging techniques. At certain laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Min Li , Peng Zhang , Siqiang Luo , Yueming Zhou , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

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

We report on the observation of phase space modulations in the correlated electron emission after strong field double ionization of helium using laser pulses with a wavelength of 394~nm and an intensity of $3\cdot10^{14}$W/cm$^2$. Those…

We use three dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (3D--TDSE) to calculate angular electron momentum distributions and photoelectron spectra of atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous fields. An example for such inhomogeneous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. F. Ciappina , J. A. Pérez-Hernández , T. Shaaran , L. Roso , M. Lewenstein

Double layer two-dimensional electron systems at high perpendicular magnetic field are used to realize magnetic tunnel junctions in which the electrons at the Fermi level in the two layers have either parallel or anti-parallel spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Interaction of a strong laser pulse with matter transfers not only energy but also linear momentum of the photons. Recent experimental advances have made it possible to detect the small amount of linear momentum delivered to the…

We formulate a three-dimensional semi-classical model to address triple and double ionization in three-electron atoms driven by intense infrared laser pulses. During time propagation, our model fully accounts for the Coulomb singularities,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 M. B. Peters , G. P. Katsoulis , A. Emmanouilidou

Single ionization of H$_2$ molecules exposed to strong and short laser pulses is investigated by a semi-classical method. Three laser characteristics are considered: i) The carrier-wave frequency corresponds to wavelengths covering and…

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

When a strong laser pulse induces the ionization of an atom, momentum conservation dictates that the absorbed photons transfer their momentum $p_{\gamma}=E_{\gamma}/c$ to the electron and its parent ion. Even after 30 years of studying…

We investigate the metal-insulator transition occurring in two-dimensional (2D) systems of noninteracting atoms in the presence of artificial spin-orbit interactions and a spatially correlated disorder generated by laser speckles. Based on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-23 Giuliano Orso

Intense-field ionization of the hydrogen molecular ion by linearly-polarized light is modelled by direct solution of the fixed-nuclei time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and compared with recent experiments. Parallel transitions are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Liang-You Peng , Daniel Dundas , J F McCann , K T Taylor , I D Williams

Relativistic strong-field ionization of hydrogen-like atoms or ions in a constant crossed electromagnetic field is studied. The transition amplitude is formulated within the strong-field approximation in G\"oppert-Mayer gauge, with initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 A. Eckey , M. Klaiber , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

Ionization of an atom or molecule by a strong laser field produces sub-optical cycle wave packets whose control has given rise to attosecond science. The final states of the wave packets depend on ionization and deflection by the laser…

We investigate differential electron distributions in nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) with linearly polarized, few-cycle pulses, using a classical model based on a laser-assisted inelastic $(e^-,2e^-)$ rescattering mechanism. We show…

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

We examine the passage of ultracold two-level atoms through two separated laser fields for the nonresonant case. We show that implications of the atomic quantized motion change dramatically the behavior of the interference fringes compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Seidel , J. G. Muga

We study Bessel beams of two-level atoms that are driven by a linearly polarized laser field. Starting from the Schroedinger equation, we determine the states of two-level atoms in a plane-wave field respecting propagation directions both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Armen G. Hayrapetyan , Oliver Matula , Andrey Surzhykov , Stephan Fritzsche

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

We discuss the possibility of non-exponential tunneling ionization of atoms irradiated by intense laser field. This effect can occur at times, which are greater than the lifetime of a system under consideration. The mechanism for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 A. M. Ishkhanyan , V. P. Krainov

We consider correlation-assisted tunnel ionization of a small molecule by an intense low-frequency laser pulse. In this mechanism, the departing electron excites the state of the ion via a Coulomb interaction. We show that the angular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Emilio Pisanty , Misha Ivanov