Numerical studies of light-matter interaction driven by plasmonic fields: the velocity gauge

Theoretical approaches to strong field phenomena driven by plasmonic fields are based on the length gauge formulation of the laser-matter coupling. From the theoretical viewpoint it is known there exists no preferable gauge and consequently the predictions and outcomes should be independent of this choice. The use of the length gauge is mainly due to the fact that the quantity obtained from finite elements simulations of plasmonic fields is the plasmonic enhanced laser electric field rather than the laser vector potential. In this paper we develop, from first principles, the velocity gauge formulation of the problem and we apply it to the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in atoms. A comparison to the results obtained with the length gauge is made. It is analytically and numerically demonstrated that both gauges give equivalent descriptions of the emitted HHG spectra resulting from the interaction of a spatially inhomogeneous field and the single active electron (SAE) model of the helium atom. We discuss, however, advantages and disadvantages of using different gauges in terms of numerical efficiency.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Journal of Computational Physic

Variable exponent Fock spaces

summary:We introduce variable exponent Fock spaces and study some of their basic properties such as boundedness of evaluation functionals, density of polynomials, boundedness of a Bergman-type projection and duality. We also prove that under the global log-Hölder condition, the variable exponent Fock spaces coincide with the classical ones