Semiclassical rates for tunnel ionization from power-law potentials induced by a constant or low-frequency electric field

TL;DR

This paper calculates tunnel ionization probabilities for particles in power-law and logarithmic potentials under constant or low-frequency electric fields, providing insights into ionization processes in such systems.

Contribution

It introduces a semiclassical method to compute ionization rates for power-law and logarithmic potentials under specific electric field conditions.

Findings

Derived explicit formulas for ionization probabilities.

Identified dependence of rates on potential type and field frequency.

Provided theoretical predictions for experimental validation.

Abstract

The probabilities of tunnel ionization of particles confined by one-dimensional power-law and logarithmic potentials are calculated for constant and low-frequency electric fields.