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Routes to irreversibility in collective laser–matter interaction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2001
Abstract
Collective absorption, so far determined by numerical simulations, is explained in physical terms for cold and warm plasma. After deducing a few general relations for flat targets, interface phase mixing and nonadiabatic electron acceleration in the skin layer are identified as the main physical processes leading to irreversibility, that is, to absorption.
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