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Attosecond-scale absorption at extreme intensities

Abstract:
A novel non-ponderomotive absorption mechanism, originally presented by Baeva et al. [Phys. Plasmas 18, 056702 (2011)] in one dimension, is extended into higher dimensions for the first time. This absorption mechanism, the Zero Vector Potential (ZVP), is expected to dominate the interactions of ultra-intense laser pulses with critically over-dense plasmas such as those that are expected with the Extreme Light Infrastructure laser systems. It is shown that the mathematical form of the ZVP mechanism and its key scaling relations found by Baeva et al. in 1D are identically reproduced in higher dimensions. The two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are then used to validate both the qualitative and quantitative predictions of the theory.
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10.1063/1.4989798

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AIP Publishing
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Physics of Plasmas More from this journal
Volume:
24
Issue:
11
Article number:
113103
Publication date:
2017-11-08
Acceptance date:
2017-10-22
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1089-7674
ISSN:
1070-664X


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2017-12-18

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