Coulomb-corrected Volkov-type solution for an electron in an intense circularly polarized laser field

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Abstract
A simple analytical approximation exists for the wavefunction of an unbound electron interacting both with a strong circularly polarized laser field and an atomic Coulomb potential (Reiss and Krainov 1994 Phys. Rev. A 50 R910). This wavefunction is the Volkov state with a first-order Coulomb correction coming from some perturbative expansion of the potential in the Kramers-Henneberger reference frame. The expansion is valid, if the distance from the centre of the Coulomb force is smaller than the classical radius of motion of a free electron in a plane-wave field. We improve the approximate Coulomb-Volkov wavefunction by including the next term in the perturbative expansion of the atomic potential.

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