Resonant dynamics of the H atom in an elliptically polarized microwave field
chao-dyn
2009-10-31 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Atomic Physics
Abstract
The dynamics of Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen driven by elliptically polarized microwaves of frequency fulfilling 2:1 classical resonance condition is investigated both semiclassically and quantum mechanically in a simplified two-dimensional model of an atom. Semiclassical results for quasienergies of the system are shown to be in a good agreement with exact quantum data. The structures of the quantum states are found to reflect the underlying classical dynamics; especially we show the existence of nonspreading wavepackets propagating on elliptical trajectories.
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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9811017,
title = {Resonant dynamics of the H atom in an elliptically polarized microwave field},
author = {Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9811017},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A