Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

It is vital to treat field ionization adequately and validate the different existing models critically in order to obtain trustworthy results from plasma simulations. This poster presents numerical methods for modelling field ionization in laser-plasma interactions. Based on results obtained in earlier Monte-Carlo simulations on CPU and later application to the fully-relativistic particle-in-cell code PIConGPU it is pointed out that different ionization models and the details of modelling field ionization can have a major influence on plasma dynamics.