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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 39: Poster: Atomic systems in external fields
A 39.13: Poster
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 16:00–18:30, Empore Lichthof
Electron dynamics in atoms and clusters driven by twisted light — •Koray Köksal1,2, Yaroslav Pavlyukh2, and Jamal Berakdar2 — 1Faculty of Arts and Science, Physics Department, Bitlis Eren University, 13000 Bitlis, Turkey — 2Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Heinrich-Damerow-Str. 4, 06120 Halle, Germany
We study the electron dynamics in atoms and clusters triggered by light carrying orbital angular momentum (or twisted light). It is shown that charge currents can be generated [1] in the system that may be utilized as a source for localized magnetic pulses. For a sizable current it is advantageous to have the system’s size on the scale of the waist size of the laser. Hence, we are investigating the electron dynamics in metal clusters under the action of twisted light with analytical and numerical methods as we developed and presented in [1, 2].
[1] K. Köksal and J. Berakdar, Phys. Rev. A, 86, 063812 (2012).
[2] Y. Pavlyukh and J. Berakdar, K. Köksal, Phys. Rev. B 85, 195418 (2012).