High-order above-threshold ionization: The uniform approximation and the effect of the binding potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 434131-4341314

  De Morisson Faria, C Figueira ^a   Schomerus, H ^b   Becker, W ^a,c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; IONIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEGATIVE IONS; SCATTERING;

QUANTUM ORBITS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036818597     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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