Coulomb-corrected strong-field approximation based on a genetic algorithm

Abstract

Coulomb-corrected strong-field approximation (CCSFA), which integrates Coulomb potential and the interference effects, is a semiclassical method successful in the study of atomic strong-field ionization. However, it is difficult to numerically solve the saddle-point equation describing tunnelling in the CCSFA, especially for complex laser fields such as elliptically or orthogonally polarized two-color laser fields. In this work, we propose an efficient method based on the genetic algorithm (CCSFA-GA) to overcome this difficulty. The accuracy of our method is verified by comparing our result with the calculation of the standard CCSFA on a hydrogen atom, subjected to an intense laser field. Moreover, we show that the result of the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with an elliptically polarized laser field can be well reproduced by the CCSFA-GA.