Static field limit of excitation probabilities in laser-atom interactions
(2019) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics — Vol. 52, n° 19, p. 85004 (2019)
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Galstyan, Alexander 
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- We consider the interaction of atomic hydrogen, in its ground state, with an electromagnetic pulse whose duration is fixed in terms of the number of optical cycles. We study the probability of excitation of the atom in the static field limit i.e. for field frequencies going to zero. Despite the fact that the well-known Born–Fock adiabatic theorem is valid only for a system whose energy spectrum is discrete, we show that it is still possible to use this theorem to derive, in the low frequency limit, an analytical formula which gives the probability of transition to any excited state of the atom as a function of the field intensity, the carrier envelope phase and the number of optical cycles within the pulse. The results for the probability of excitation to lowlying excited states, obtained with this formula, agree with those we get by solving the timedependent Schrödinger equation. The domain of validity is discussed in detail.
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Galstyan, A., Shablov, V., Popov, Y. V., Mota-Furtado, F., O’Mahony, P. F., & Piraux, B. (2019). Static field limit of excitation probabilities in laser-atom interactions. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 52(19), 85004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab0c33 (Original work published 2019)