Routes to irreversibility in collective laser-matter interaction

Authors
Mulser, P Ruhl, H Steinmetz, J
Citation
P. Mulser et al., Routes to irreversibility in collective laser-matter interaction, LASER PART, 19(1), 2001, pp. 23-28
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS
ISSN journal
02630346 → ACNP
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
23 - 28
Database
ISI
SICI code
0263-0346(200103)19:1<23:RTIICL>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Collective absorption, so far determined by numerical simulations, is expla ined in physical terms for cold and warm plasma. After deducing a few gener al relations for flat targets, interface phase mixing and nonadiabatic elec tron acceleration in the skin layer are identified as the main physical pro cesses leading to irreversibility, that is, to absorption.