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On the inclusion of the Coulomb interaction in the theory of multiphoton ionization

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The Coulomb correction to the rate of multiphoton ionization of atoms and ions by intense laser radiation is derived for large Keldysh adiabaticity parameters using the imaginary time method. This correction increases the ionization rate by several orders of magnitude.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ul. Bol’shaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117218, Russia

    V. S. Popov

  2. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University), Kashirskoe-sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    V. D. Mur & S. V. Popruzhenko

  3. Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, 69029, Heidelberg, Germany

    S. V. Popruzhenko

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Original Russian Text © V.S. Popov, V.D. Mur, S.V. Popruzhenko, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 85, No. 5, pp. 275–278.

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Popov, V.S., Mur, V.D. & Popruzhenko, S.V. On the inclusion of the Coulomb interaction in the theory of multiphoton ionization. Jetp Lett. 85, 223–226 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364007050013

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