Highly accurate semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator method for high-harmonic generation
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| author | Tran, Phi-Hung Truong, Hao Quan Goetz, R. Esteban Le, Anh-Thu |
| author_facet | Tran, Phi-Hung Truong, Hao Quan Goetz, R. Esteban Le, Anh-Thu |
| contents | We extend our recently developed semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator (SFHK) method to calculate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) for atoms in intense lasers. We show that our method, based on a combination of the Herman-Kluk propagator and the strong-field approximation, can provide highly accurate results for both HHG yield and phase, nearly identical to those from the exact numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We provide detailed analyses of our method and its applications to the HHG process, particularly the recombination time. The main computational task in this method is to solve the classical Newton equations for the active electron in the combined atomic potential and laser-electron interaction. The motion of the centers of the electron wave packets, modeled by coherent states, is governed by independent classical trajectories so that the computation can therefore be parallelized very efficiently. |
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| spellingShingle | Highly accurate semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator method for high-harmonic generation Tran, Phi-Hung Truong, Hao Quan Goetz, R. Esteban Le, Anh-Thu Atomic Physics Quantum Physics We extend our recently developed semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator (SFHK) method to calculate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) for atoms in intense lasers. We show that our method, based on a combination of the Herman-Kluk propagator and the strong-field approximation, can provide highly accurate results for both HHG yield and phase, nearly identical to those from the exact numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We provide detailed analyses of our method and its applications to the HHG process, particularly the recombination time. The main computational task in this method is to solve the classical Newton equations for the active electron in the combined atomic potential and laser-electron interaction. The motion of the centers of the electron wave packets, modeled by coherent states, is governed by independent classical trajectories so that the computation can therefore be parallelized very efficiently. |
| title | Highly accurate semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator method for high-harmonic generation |
| topic | Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17164 |