Imaging the Kramers-Henneberger atom

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 16906-16911

  Morales, Felipe ^a   Richter, Maria ^a   Patchkovskii, Serguei ^a,b   Smirnova, Olga ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atomic stabilization; Dressed atom; Kramers Henneberger approximation; Strong field ionization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRON; KRAMERS HENNEBERGER ATOM; LASER; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80054774300     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105916108     Document Type: Article

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