Multiple Time Scales in the Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms

Andreas Buchleitner, Dominique Delande, Jakub Zakrzewski, Rosario N. Mantegna, Markus Arndt, and Herbert Walther
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3818 – Published 20 November 1995
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Abstract

We investigate the time dependence of the ionization probability of Rydberg atoms driven by microwave fields, both numerically and experimentally. Our exact quantum results provide evidence for an algebraic decay law on suitably chosen time scales, a phenomenon that is considered to be the signature of nonhyperbolic scattering in unbounded classically chaotic motion.

  • Received 15 May 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3818

©1995 American Physical Society

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Andreas Buchleitner1, Dominique Delande2, Jakub Zakrzewski2,3, Rosario N. Mantegna4, Markus Arndt1, and Herbert Walther1,5

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  • 2Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, 4 place Jussieu, Tour 12, 1 étage, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
  • 3Instytut Fizyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. Reymonta 4, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland
  • 4Dipartimento di Energetica ed Applicazioni di Fisica, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
  • 5Sektion Physik der Universität München, Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany

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Vol. 75, Iss. 21 — 20 November 1995

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