Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2010-08-18
Physics
Atomic Physics
4 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX
Scientific paper
Experiments on atoms in intense laser pulses and the corresponding exact ab initio solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) yield photoelectron spectra with low-energy features that are not reproduced by the otherwise successful work horse of strong field laser physics: the "strong field approximation" (SFA). In the semi-classical limit, the SFA possesses an appealing interpretation in terms of interfering quantum trajectories. It is shown that a conceptually simple extension towards the inclusion of Coulomb effects yields very good agreement with exact TDSE results. Moreover, the Coulomb quantum orbits allow for a physically intuitive interpretation and detailed analysis of all low-energy features in the semi-classical regime, in particular the recently discovered "low-energy structure" [C.I. Blaga et al., Nature Physics 5, 335 (2009) and W. Quan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093001 (2009)].
Bauer David
Popruzhenko S. V.
Vrakking M. J. J.
Yan Tian-Min
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