Electron-Atom Scattering in a Laser Field

Mittleman, Marvin H.

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Electron-Atom Scattering in a Laser Field

Marvin H. Mittleman⁴

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When electrons scatter from atoms in a laser field, exotic effects can be observed which are not accessible in ordinary electron-atom scattering. This remark is made more plausible by noting that the laser beam plays the role of a third body in the scattering. Indeed, had we retained the photon description of the laser, then they could obviously play that role. There are at least two kinds of these exotic effects: In the first of these, collisions of either the electron or the atom with the third body during the scattering can produce what would be called off-shell amplitudes in ordinary electron-atom scattering. The second occurs from the interference of amplitudes which is not otherwise observable.

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Mittleman, M.H. (1993). Electron-Atom Scattering in a Laser Field. In: Introduction to the Theory of Laser-Atom Interactions. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2436-0_8

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