Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-05
Physics
Atomic Physics
submited to PRA
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033412
The ionization of atomic hydrogen in intense laser fields is studied theoretically. The calculations were performed applying both quantummechanical and classical approaches. Treating the problem quantummechanically, the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) of our system was first transformed into a pseudo-momentum space and solved in this space iteratively. While neglecting the Coulomb potential during the solution of the TDSE we got the results in the Volkov approximation, in the first order solution we taken into account the Coulomb potential as perturbation. The classical calculations were performed within the framework of the classical trajectory Monte-Carlo (CTMC) method. The double differential ionization probabilities are calculated for different laser pulses and a reasonable agreement was found between the theories. Major differences can be observed in the angular distribution of electrons at low electron energies between classical and the quantummechanical approaches. At high electron energies the differences disappear, which indicates that the generation of low energy electrons is of quantum type, and it is strongly influenced by the Coulomb potential, while the production of high energy electrons is of classical type and it is less influenced by the Coulomb interaction. Our results are also compared with the Coulomb-Volkov (CV) model calculations.
Borbély S.
Nagy L.
Tokesi Karoly
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