Classical and quantum-mechanical treatments of nonsequential double ionization with few-cycle laser pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Figueira De Morisson Faria, C ^a   Liu, X ^b   Sanpera, A ^a   Lewenstein, M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; FREQUENCIES; LASER PULSES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ABSOLUTE-PHASE MEASUREMENT; NON-SEQUENTIAL DOUBLE IONIZATION (NSDI); RESCATTERING PROCESS; SADDLE-POINT APPROXIMATION;

IONIZATION;

EID: 19744364848     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.043406     Document Type: Article

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