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An electric field \(E(\vec {r},t)\) interacts with the charged properties of matter. As electrons possess considerably less mass than the ionic cores, their dynamics excited by the driving field evolve on shorter timescales than the induced lattice oscillation.
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Sommer, A.M. (2016). Theoretical Description of the Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation. In: Ultrafast Strong Field Dynamics in Dielectrics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41207-8_2
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