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Optimizing the incident electron momentum for resonant few-photon Kapitza-Dirac scattering in bichromatic laser fields

Ingo Elsner and Carsten Müller

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Phys. Rev. A 112, 032215 – Published 15 September, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/q7tp-p9vd

Abstract

Nonrelativistic Kapitza-Dirac scattering of electrons from counterpropagating bichromatic laser waves is studied in the resonant Bragg regime, taking the electron spin into account. We show that the intrinsic field-induced detuning, which arises in the Rabi oscillation dynamics between initial and scattering state of the electron, can be compensated by a suitable adjustment of its incident momentum. Analytical formulas of the optimized electron momentum for spin-dependent three-photon and spin-independent four-photon Kapitza-Dirac scattering are obtained from simplified model systems in reduced dimensionality, which preserve the characteristic properties of the process.

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Phys. Rev. A 112, 032215– Published 15 September, 2025
  • Received 9 July 2025
  • Accepted 21 August 2025
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