New States of Hydrogen in a Circularly Polarized Electromagnetic Field
- 16 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (12) , 2420-2423
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.2420
Abstract
We predict the existence in hydrogen of stable nonspreading Rydberg wave packet states that have no classical counterparts. We show their time-dependent creation from circular Rydberg states in numerical simulations. These states are both angularly and radially localized exactly in antiphase from the corresponding nonspreading (so-called Trojan) packet position and are stabilized by quantum interference.Keywords
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