Semiclassical dynamics of circular-orbit Rydberg wave packets
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (4) , 2329-2339
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.2329
Abstract
A semiclassical propagator is applied to describe the dynamics of circular-orbit wave packets which are initially well localized in three dimensions. A sum over classical Kepler trajectories for the wave-packet autocorrelation function is obtained which is extremely accurate well past the classical regime of the evolution regime of the wave packet. The nonclassical nature of the wave-packet evolution at long times is associated with the interference between amplitudes from classical paths at different energies. The time scale of the wave-packet revivals is related to the shearing rate of the corresponding classical ensemble.Keywords
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