Lippmann-Schwinger description of multiphoton ionization
Igor A. Ivanov, Anatoli S. Kheifets
We outline a formalism and develop a computational procedure to treat the process of multiphoton ionization (MPI) of atomic targets in strong laser fields. We treat the MPI process nonperturbatively as a decay phenomenon by solving a coupled set of the integral Lippmann-Schwinger equations. As basic building blocks of the theory, we use a complete set of field-free atomic states, discrete and continuous. This approach should enable us to provide both the total and differential cross sections of MPI of atoms with one and two electrons. As an illustration, we apply the proposed procedure to a simple model of MPI from a square-well potential and to the hydrogen atom.
arXiv:physics/0502016•Physical Review A•Apr 14, 2005•8 citations