Symmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields
Abstract
We present the first observations of cylindrical symmetry breaking in highly excited diamagnetic hydrogen with a small crossed electric field, and we give a semiclassical interpretation of this effect. As the small perpendicular electric field is added, the recurrence strengths of closed orbits decrease smoothly to a minimum, and revive again. This phenomenon, caused by interference among the electron waves that return to the nucleus, can be computed from the azimuthal dependence of the classical closed orbits.
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@article{arxiv.physics/9701014,
title = {Symmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields},
author = {C. Neumann and R. Ubert and S. Freund and E. Floethmann and B. Sheehy and K. H. Welge and M. R. Haggerty and J. B. Delos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9701014},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 page REVTeX file including 5 postscript files (using psfig) Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Difference from earlier preprint: we have discovered the cause of the earlier apparent discrepancy between experiment and theory and now achieve excellent agreement