Modelling laser-atom interactions in the strong field regime

A Galstyan, Yu Popov, Francisca Mota-Furtado, Patrick O'Mahony, N Janssens, Samuel Jenkins, O Chuluunbaatar, Bernard Piraux

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Abstract

We consider the ionisation of atomic hydrogen by a strong infrared field. We extend and study in more depth an existing semi-analytical model. Starting from the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in momentum space and in the velocity gauge we substitute the kernel of the non-local Coulomb potential by a sum of N separable potentials, each of them supporting one hydrogen bound state. This leads to a set of N coupled one-dimensional linear Volterra integral equations to solve. We analyze the gauge problem for the model, the different ways of generating the separable potentials and establish a clear link with the strong field approximation which turns out to be a limiting case of the present model. We calculate electron energy spectra as well as the time evolution of electron wave packets in momentum space. We compare and discuss the results obtained with the model and with the strong field approximation and examine in this context the role of excited states.
Original languageEnglish
Article number97
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
Volume71
Early online date25 Apr 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2017

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