Theory of multiphoton single and double ionization of two-electron atomic systems driven by short-wavelength electric fields: An ab initio treatment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Foumouo, Emmanuel ^a   Kamta, Gérard Lagmago ^b   Edah, Gaston ^c   Piraux, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES ET DE SCIENCES PHYSIQUES   (Benin)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HELIUM; IONIZATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AB INITIO TREATMENT; COULOMB-STURMIAN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON RADIAL COORDINATES; MULTICHANNEL SCATTERING WAVE FUNCTIONS; TIME PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 33845523721     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.063409     Document Type: Article

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