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On the absence of bound-state stabilization through short ultra-intense fields

Quantum Physics 2009-10-30 v2 atom-ph chem-ph

Abstract

We address the question of whether atomic bound states begin to stabilize in the short ultra-intense field limit. We provide a general theory of ionization probability and investigate its gauge invariance. For a wide range of potentials we find an upper and lower bound by non-perturbative methods, which clearly exclude the possibility that the ultra intense field might have a stabilizing effect on the atom. For short pulses we find almost complete ionization as the field strength increases.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9604009,
  title  = {On the absence of bound-state stabilization through short ultra-intense fields},
  author = {A. Fring and V. Kostrykin and R. Schrader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9604009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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