Abstract
We calculate the decay rates due to spontaneous emission for electronic states described by Trojan wave packets. The spontaneous decay rate for a typical Trojan state is six orders of magnitude smaller than the ionization rate and it is about one order of magnitude smaller than the rate for the corresponding ordinary circular Rydberg state.
- Received 16 June 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.3623
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