This paper uses the classical ensemble method to study the double ionization of a 2-dimensional (2D) model helium atom interacting with an elliptically polarized laser pulse. The classical ensemble calculation demonstrates that the ratio of double to single ionization decreases with the increasing ellipticity of the driving field. The classical scenario shows that there are hardly any e--e recollisions with the circularly polarized laser pulse. The double ionization probability is studied for linearly and circularly polarized laser pulses. The classical numerical results are consistent with the semiclassical rescattering mechanism and in agreement with the experimental results and the quantum calculations qualitatively.
In this paper we survey recent progress in symplectic algorithms for use in quantum systems in the following topics:Symplectic schemes for solving Hamiltonian systems;Classical trajectories of diatomic systems,model molecule A2B,Hydrogen ion H+2 and elementary atmospheric reaction N(4S)+O2(X 3Σ−g)→NO(X 2Π)+O(3P)calculated by means of Runge-Kutta methods and symplectic methods;the classical dissociation of the HF molecule and classical dynamics of H+2 in an intense laser field;the symplectic form and symplectic-scheme shooting method for the time-independent Schr¨odinger equation;the computation of continuum eigenfunction of the Schr¨odinger equation;asymptotic boundary conditions for solving the time-dependent Schr¨odinger equation of an atom in an intense laser field;symplectic discretization based on asymptotic boundary condition and the numerical eigenfunction expansion;and applications in computing multi-photon ionization,above-threshold ionization,Rabbi oscillation and high-order harmonic generation of laser-atom interaction.