Precise Measurement of the Static Electric-Field Ionization Rate for Resolved Hydrogen Stark Substates
- 11 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (19) , 1275-1278
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.1275
Abstract
We report the first precise measurements of the ionization rate in the tunneling regime for resolved Stark substates of hydrogen. Excellent agreement is obtained with nonrelativistic numerical calculations. No effects of wave function mixing induced by relativistic or other interactions were observed. We consider and give an experimental upper limit for the magnitude of the H-D isotopic shift in .
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