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Within the context of the time-reversed S-matrix approach to photoionization, and employing a recently proposed strong-field solution to the Schrödinger equation, analytic expressions for the atomic photoionization rates are obtained here without using the dipole approximation. We show that the absorbed photon momentum shows up as a forward-directed momentum component for the photoelectron. All the expressions reported in this work have the correct limits when the dipole approximation is used.
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Salamin, Y.I. Nonrelativistic Strong-Field Photoionization without Making the Dipole Approximation. Foundations of Physics 28, 653–665 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018769807796
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