| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 44, Number 2, October II 1998
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| Page(s) | 162 - 167 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00451-1 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Conductance fluctuations in microwave-driven Rydberg atoms
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
3
Universitá di Milano, Sede di Como - Via Lucini 3, I-22100 Como, Italy
4
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
5
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Unità di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20134 Milano, Italy
6
Instytut Fizyki imienia Mariana Smoluchowskiego, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, ulica Reymonta 4, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland
Received:
8
June
1998
Accepted:
27
August
1998
We draw and quantitatively support a parallel between conductance fluctuations in one-dimensional disordered solids and fluctuations of lifetimes of hydrogen atoms in microwave fields. In particular, we numerically analyze the statistics of scaled atomic resonance widths in the localized regime and we find a lognormal distribution, quantitatively consistent with the theory of Anderson localization.
PACS: 05.45.+b – Theory and models of chaotic systems / 32.80.Rm – Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g., Rydberg states) / 72.15.Rn – Quantum localization
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