Rapidity-Coupled Spin Dynamics in Pulsed Laser Fields from Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) stabilized few-cycle pulses make the sub-cycle field structure a control parameter for laser-driven polarized electron sources, yet spin solvers for such pulses are rarely tested against exact results. We show that for an electron initially at rest in a linearly polarized plane-wave pulse the rest-frame polarization angle follows the instantaneous vector potential, $Σ= 2\arctan(a_x/2) + a_e a_x$ with $a_e$ the electron anomaly: the net rotation vanishes for every CEP, while the peak intra-pulse angle varies over the CEP by 3.02 degrees for a two-cycle and by 0.22 degrees for an eight-cycle pulse. The result follows from the Volkov orbit in longitudinal and transverse rapidities. We use it to validate a light-front reference integrator and a physics-informed neural network trained only on the light-front equations, which reaches $4\times10^{-5}$ in the spin sector and carries over to elliptical polarization, for which no closed-form solution is known. This gives validated tools for CEP-resolved spin dynamics in intense fields.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G2947295123, G4792865377, G5657253159
OpenAlex ID: W7213588096