Recent Applications Of The Lattice, Time-Dependent Schroedinger Equation Approach For Ion-Atom Collisions

Contemporary computational methods, such as the lattice, time-dependent Schroedinger equation (LTDSE) approach, have opened opportunities to study ion-atom collisions at a new level of detail and to uncover unexpected phenomena. Such interactions within gaseous, plasma, and material environments are fundamental to diverse applications such as low temperature plasma processing of materials, magnetic confinement fusion, and astrophysics. Results are briefly summarized here stemming from recent use of the LTDSE approach, with particular emphasis on elucidation of unexpected vortices in the ejected electron spectrum in ion-atom collisions and for an atom subject to an electric field pulse.