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The R-matrix with Time dependence approach RMT for atomic and molecular dynamics in intense fields

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Abstract

The R-matrix with time-dependence approach aims to solve the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for general multi-electron atoms and molecules interacting with intense laser light. In the last few years, we have generalised the approach to the treatment of arbitrarily polarised laser light, to the description of atoms within the Breit-Pauli approximation, and to the description of molecular dynamics. We will illustrate these developments through a demonstration of dynamics driven by the spin-orbit interaction, through verification of the ratio of emission of co- and counter-rotating electrons in circularly polarised light fields, and through the intensity dependence of photoionization of water.

Publication: A.C. Brown et al, Computer Physics Communications 250, 107062 (2020)

Presenters

  • Hugo W van der Hart

    Queen's University Belfast

Authors

  • Hugo W van der Hart

    Queen's University Belfast

  • Andrew Brown

    Queen's University Belfast

  • Gregory Armstrong

    Queen's University Belfast

  • Daniel Clarke

    Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin

  • Jack Wragg

    Queen's University Belfast

  • Kathryn Hamilton

    Drake University

  • Jakub Benda

    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Charles University

  • Zdenek Masin

    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Charles University

  • Jimena D Gorfinkiel

    The Open University, School of Physical Sciences, Open University, Open University