Radiative decay of Trojan wave packets

Zofia Bialynicka-Birula and Iwo Bialynicki-Birula
Phys. Rev. A 56, 3623 – Published 1 November 1997
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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 (n=60) 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

©1997 American Physical Society

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Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

  • Institute of Physics, Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Vol. 56, Iss. 5 — November 1997

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