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A: Atomphysik

A 13: Poster HU 2

A 13.28: Poster

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 08:30–18:30, Poster HU

Analytical Approach to Wave Packet Dynamics
of Laser-Driven Particles beyond the Dipole Approximation — •Mario Verschl and Christoph Keitel — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg

An analytical approach to quantum mechanical wave packet dynamics of laser-driven particles is presented. The dynamics of an electron exposed to a linearly polarized plane wave of arbitrary shape is found by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The calculation includes effects of order 1/c, i.e. the magnetic field is accounted for. Effects like wave packet shearing and particle drift in laser propagation direction are recovered. Analytical expressions for the time-dependent widths of the wave packet and its orientation allow for a simple understanding of the wave packet dynamics in propagating laser fields.

1. D.B. Milosevic and F. Ehlotzky,
   Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 49, 373-532 (2003)
2. M. Verschl and C.H. Keitel,
   Laser Physics, in press (2004)