Nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron-pair creation in laser fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Mocken, Guido R ^a   Ruf, Matthias ^a   Müller, Carsten ^a   Keitel, Christoph H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COUNTER-PROPAGATING LASER PULSE; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; LASER FIELDS; MOMENTUM SPECTRA; MULTIPHOTON REGIMES; MULTIPHOTONS; NONPERTURBATIVE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PAIR CREATION; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE WIDTH; TIME DEPENDENCE;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; POSITRONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RESONANCE;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77649096791     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.022122     Document Type: Article

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