Chaotic Ionization of Nonhydrogenic Alkali Rydberg States
- 16 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (16) , 3538-3541
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3538
Abstract
We report the first ab initio quantum treatment of microwave driven alkali Rydberg states. We find that nonhydrogenic atomic initial states exhibit fingerprints of classically chaotic excitation, and identify the cause of their experimentally observed enhanced ionization, as compared to Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen.Keywords
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