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The behavior of an atom under a superstrong, high-frequency field has been actracting quite a bit of attention in the community of theoretical multiphoton physics. This pertains to the question of possible stabilization with respect to ionization under such conditions as proposed by Pont et a1.1,2 A more recent paper by Pont and Gavrila3 has raised considerable doubt about the possible direct experimental observation of such an effect. Having now evaluated the possibility for the atom to survive the lower (in relative terms) intensities during the rising and falling of the pulse, these authors obtain a negative answer. As has been shown in Ref. 4, the explicit time dependence of the laser intensity due to its pulsed nature plays a fundamental role in understanding the processes of interaction with strong fields and unless it is included in a calculation, one can not be sure about the validity of the prediction. The calculation of Pont and Gavrila3 on the other hand, being inherently time-independent, provides only average lifetimes at fixed intensities and not the complete time evolution of the system in a realistic pulse.
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Tang, X., Basile, S., Lambropoulos, P. (1992). A Hydrogen Atom in an Intense, High Frequency, Short Pulse Laser. In: Bandrauk, A.D., Wallace, S.C. (eds) Coherence Phenomena in Atoms and Molecules in Laser Fields. NATO ASI Series, vol 287. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3364-1_3
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