Electron in one-dimensional symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials under intense/superintense laser fields: A numerical study based on time-dependent Schrödinger equation

Abstract

The responses of an electron moving in one-dimensional symmetric and asymmetric double-well oscillator (DWO) potentials respectively are analyzed under intense and superintense laser fields by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation and evolving the systems for 96 fs at λ=1064 nm as well as different laser intensities. Emphasis is placed on the study of only those features which can arise from the response of a single system. A detailed investigation of multiphoton processes such as high harmonics generation and the energy spectrum (obtained by fast fourier transform of the autocorrelation function) is made. The applicability of these DWOs as model systems for the generation of attosecond pulses is examined. Furthermore, a comparison is made with atoms and molecules under similar conditions, thereby establishing a qualitative parallelism in the behavior of real atoms/molecules and these model DWO systems.