Trajectory-based models in strong-field physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews semiclassical trajectory models in strong-field physics, highlighting their methods, advantages, limitations, and applications to phenomena like ionization and harmonic generation.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of various semiclassical models and their recent applications in understanding strong-field phenomena.

Findings

Different semiclassical approaches have unique advantages and shortcomings.

Semiclassical models successfully simulate key strong-field phenomena.

Recent applications demonstrate the models' effectiveness in explaining experimental results.

Abstract

We review various semiclassical models for strong-field physics. These semiclassical models employ ensembles of classical trajectories to simulate electron motion in the continuum after being released from an atom or molecule by an external laser field. We discuss different approaches to trajectory-based simulations and identify their advantages and shortcomings. We also review some of the recent applications of semiclassical models to the key strong-field phenomena: above-threshold ionization, high-order harmonic generation, nonsequential double ionization, and frustrated tunneling ionization.