Abstract
We present a time-dependent theory of laser catalysis, a process in which a strong light source is used to affect tunneling through a potential barrier by inducing a transient electronic excitation to a bound state. We have performed detailed calculations of pulsed laser catalysis on a one-dimensional Eckart potential as a function of the collision energy and the laser's central frequency. As in the cw case, the barrier transmission coefficients range from 100% tunneling on the blue side to complete suppression of tunneling on the red side of the radiatively broadened line. The point of perfect transmission is explained in the dressed state picture in terms of the equivalence between adiabatic laser catalysis and transmission through a double-barrier potential. The point of complete suppression of tunneling is shown to result from nonadiabatic destructive interference between the nonradiative tunneling and the optically assisted route.
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