Project A9

Title: Simulation of quantum dynamics in strong laser fields using density functional theory
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dieter Bauer
Abstract:

We investigate the correlated and collective dynamics of atoms, molecules, and clusters in intense laser fields employing time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Processes like ionization, excitation, recombination, and (inner) shell effects are included self-consistently in a TDDFT description. A versatile TDDFT code, which solves the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in various geometries, will be developed in the course of this project and applied to topical problems studied within the SFB. However, care has to be exercised when TDDFT is used beyond linear response, as commonly employed exchange correlation potentials are not capable of describing correctly the correlation effects in strongly driven quantum systems. Moreover, the density functionals for some of the observables of interest (e.g., energy spectra) are still unknown. To that end we aim at improving TDDFT by developing and testing new functionals using exactly solvable model systems as benchmarks.

Publications:
2013
  • Time-resolved Thomson scattering on high-intensity laser-produced hot dense helium plasmas

    Sperling P., Liseykina T.V., Bauer D., Redmer R.
    New Journal of Physics 15, Nr.: 025041, 2013

    Invited article for the focus issue on High Energy Density Physics

    Article online
2012
  • Pb 4f photoelectron spectroscopy on mass-selected anionic lead clusters at FLASH

    Bahn J., Oelßner, P., Köther M., Braun C., Senz V., Palutke S., Martins, M., Rühl E., Ganteför G., Möller T., von Issendorf B., Bauer D., Tiggesbäumker J., Meiwes-Broer K.-H.
    New Journal of Physics 14, Nr.: 075008, 2012

    Article online
  • Modeling core-hole screening in jellium clusters using density functional theory

    Bauer D.
    New Journal of Physics 14, Nr.: 055012, 2012

    Article online
  • Scaling Laws for Photoelectron Holography in the Mid-Infrared Wavelength Regime

    Huismans Y. et al.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, Nr.: 013002, 2012

    Full author list: Y. Huismans, A. Gijsbertsen, A. S. Smolkowska, J. H. Jungmann, A. Rouzée, P. S. W. M. Logman, F. Lépine, C. Cauchy, S. Zamith, T. Marchenko, J. M. Bakker, G. Berden, B. Redlich, A. F. G. van der Meer, M. Yu. Ivanov, T.-M. Yan, D. Bauer, O. Smirnova, and M. J. J. Vrakking

    Article online
  • Floquet analysis of real-time wavefunctions without solving the Floquet equation

    Kapoor V., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 85, Nr.: 023407, 2012

    Article online
  • Interference carpets in above-threshold ionization: from the Coulomb-free to the Coulomb-dominated regime

    Korneev Ph. A., Popruzhenko S.V., Goreslavski S. P., Yan Tian-Min, Bauer D., Becker W., Kübel M., Kling M., Rödel C., Wünsche M., Paulus G.G.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, Nr.: 223601, 2012

    Article online
  • Laser-cluster interaction with sub-cycle pulses

    Kundu M., Kaw P.K., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 85, Nr.: 023202, 2012

    Article online
  • Sub-barrier Coulomb effects on the interference pattern in tunneling ionization photoelectron spectra

    Yan Tian-Min, Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 86, Nr.: 053403, 2012

    Article online
  • Trajectory-Based Coulomb-Corrected Strong Field Approximation

    Yan Tian-Min, Popruzhenko S.V., Vrakking, M.J.J., Bauer D.
    Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics, Band 125, Seiten 221, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-28947-7, Editor: K. Yamanouchi, K. Midorikawa (2012)

    Article online
2011
  • Laser assisted decay of quasistationary states

    Castaneda-Cortes H.M., Popruzhenko S.V., Bauer D., Pálffy A.
    New Journal of Physics 13, Nr.: 063007, 2011

  • Dense monoenergetic proton beams from chirped laser-plasma interaction

    Galow B.J., Salamin Y.I., Liseykina T.V., Harman Z., Keitel Ch.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, Nr.: 185002, 2011

  • Radiation friction modeling in superintense laser-plasma interactions

    Macchi A., Tamburini M., Pegoraro F., Liseykina T.V.
    Proc. SPIE 8075, Nr.: 807509, 2011

  • Time-dependent Kohn-Sham approach to quantum electrodynamics

    Ruggenthaler M., Mackenroth F., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 84, Nr.: 042107, 2011

  • Radiation reaction effects on electron nonlinear dynamics and ion acceleration in laser?solid interaction

    Tamburini M., Pegoraro F., Di Piazza A., Keitel Ch., Liseykina T.V., Macchi A.
    Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 653:181, 2011

  • Time-resolved holography with photoelectron waves

    Y. Huismans et al.
    Science 331:61, 2011

    Article online
2010
  • Observation of magnetized soliton remnants in the wake of intense laser pulse propagation through plasmas

    L. Romagnani et al.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, Nr.: 175002, 2010

    Article online
  • Relativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches from Laser-Illuminated Droplets

    Liseykina T.V., Pirner S., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, Nr.: 095002, 2010

    Article online
  • Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Ultrathin Foils

    Macchi A., Veghini S., Liseykina T.V., Pegoraro F.
    New Journal of Physics 12, Nr.: 045013, 2010

    Article online
  • High Power Laser-Matter Interaction

    Mulser P., Bauer D.
    Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, Band 238, Seiten 410, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-50669-0 (2010)

    Article online
  • Anharmonic resonance in intense laser-matter interaction: Key to collisionless absorption

    Mulser P., Bauer D.
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1209:75, 2010

    Article online
  • Double-slit experiments in the time-domain

    Paulus G.G., Bauer D.
    Lecture Notes in Physics: Time in Quantum Mechanics Vol. 2, Band 789, Seiten 303-339, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-03173-1 (2010)

    Article online
  • General Runge-Gross type theorem for dipole laser-matter interaction

    Ruggenthaler M., Penz M., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 81, Nr.: 062108, 2010

    Article online
  • Low-Energy Structures in Strong Field Ionization Revealed by Quantum Orbits

    Yan Tian-Min, Popruzhenko S.V., Vrakking M.J.J., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, Nr.: 253002, 2010

    Article online
2009
  • The local Hartree-exchange and correlation potential defined by local force equations

    Ruggenthaler M., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. A 80, Nr.: 052502, 2009

    Article online
  • On the existence of effective potentials in time-dependent density functional theory

    Ruggenthaler M., Penz M., Bauer D.
    J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 42, Nr.: 425207, 2009

    Article online
  • Rabi Oscillations and Few-Level Approximations in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

    Ruggenthaler M., Bauer D.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, Nr.: 233001, 2009

    Article online