EPL is available also on-line on www.epljournal.org

• All issues
• Search

Home Document

Journal homepage

Table of contents

 Previous article  Next article 

• Abstract
• - Full HTML
• - PDF
• - References

Services

• Same authors
  - Google Scholar
  - EDP Sciences database
• Related articles
  
  - EDP Sciences database
•  
• Recommend this article
• Download citation
• Alert me when this article is corrected

Bookmarking

• BibSonomy	CiteUlike
  Connotea	Del.icio.us
  Digg	Facebook

• EDPS account
• Email-alert

Issue		Europhys. Lett. Volume 41, Number 4, February 1998
Page(s)		383 - 388
Section		Atomic, molecular and optical physics
DOI		10.1209/epl/i1998-00161-8

DOI: 10.1209/epl/i1998-00161-8


Europhys. Lett, 41 (4), pp. 383-388 (1998)

Radiative decay of nondispersive wave packets

K. Hornberger ¹ and A. Buchleitner ^1,2

¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
² The Queen's University of Belfast - Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland

(received 15 October 1997; accepted in final form 11 December 1997)

PACS. 32.80Rm - Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g., Rydberg states).
PACS. 05.45${\rm +b}$ - Theory and models of chaotic systems.
PACS. 05.30${\rm -d}$ - Quantum statistical mechanics.

Abstract:

We study the decay of nondispersive electronic wave packets in strongly driven hydrogen atoms, which are coupled to the atomic continuum and to the vacuum modes of the electromagnetic field. A novel implementation of complex scaling allows to derive a master equation that incorporates the interplay of the coherent and the incoherent decay process. Ample numerical data predict a crossover from ionization via chaos-assisted tunneling to radiative decay, at experimentally accessible Rydberg levels.

***

Full Version in HTML

Postscript File (258 Ko)

PDF File (341 Ko)

What is OpenURL?

The OpenURL standard is a protocol for transmission of metadata describing the resource that you wish to access. An OpenURL link containsarticle metadata and directs it to the OpenURL server of your choice. The OpenURL server can provide access to the resource and also offer complementary services (specific search engine, export of references...). The OpenURL link can be generated by different means:

• if your librarian has set up your subscription with an OpenURL resolver, OpenURL links appear automatically on the abstract pages,
• you can define your own OpenURL resolver with your EDPS Account. In this case your choice will be given priority over that of your library,
• you can use an add-on for your browser (Firefox or I.E.) to display OpenURL links on a page (see http://www.openly.com/openurlref/). You should disable this module if you wish to use the OpenURL server that you or your library have defined.

Back to top

• EDP Sciences
• Credits