On the nonlocal properties of relativistic ponderomotive force
On the nonlocal properties of relativistic ponderomotive force
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4817745
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发表时间:
2013-08
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
N. Iwata;Y. Kishimoto
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作者:
N. Iwata;Y. Kishimoto
A theory of relativistic ponderomotive force of transversely localized laser fields is presented by taking into account the nonlocal effects that correspond to higher order terms of the expansion parameter ϵ≡l/L, i.e., the ratio between particle excursion length and scale length of the field amplitude gradient, while the existing local theory is the first order of ϵ. As a method for preserving the Hamiltonian structure up to higher orders, we employ the variational principle in noncanonical phase space coordinates incorporated with the Lie transformation. By finding noncanonical coordinates and gauges, we obtain a new formula for the ponderomotive force that involves new terms in the third order represented by the second and third spatial derivatives. The force then depends not only on the local field gradient but also on the curvature and its variation which represent the effects of higher-order nonlocal particle motion. The higher-order terms are found to be subject to the symmetry of the field structur...