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High magnetic fields in neutron stars, B ~ 10^{11} - 10^{13} G, substantially modify the properties of atoms and their interaction with radiation. In particular, the photoionization cross section becomes anisotropic and strongly…

atom-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Y. Potekhin , G. G. Pavlov , J. Ventura

We present a theory illuminating the cross-over from strong-field tunnelling ionization to weak-field multiphoton ionization in the interaction of a classical laser field with a hydrogen atom. A simple formula is derived in which the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Michael Klaiber , John S Briggs

A general technique for the periodic orbit quantization of systems with near-integrable to mixed regular-chaotic dynamics is introduced. A small set of periodic orbits is sufficient for the construction of the semiclassical recurrence…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Main , G. Wunner

Chaotic autoionization of the relativistic two-electron atom is investigated. A theoretical analysis of chaotic dynamics of the relativistic outer electron under the periodic perturbation due to the inner electron, based on Chirikov…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 D. U. Matrasulov

We report the results of numerical simulations for a model of a one component plasma (a system of N point electrons with mutual Coulomb interactions) in a uniform stationary magnetic field. We take N up to 512, with periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-20 Andrea Carati , Francesco Benfenati , Alberto Maiocchi , Luigi Galgani , Matteo Zuin

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Eigenlevel correlation diagrams has proven to be a very useful tool to understand eigenstate characteristics of classically chaotic systems. In particular, we showed in a previous publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 944 (1998)] how to unveil…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-29 F. J. Arranz , J. Montes , F. Borondo

We investigate dynamics of atomic and molecular systems exposed to intense, shaped chaotic fields and a weak femtosecond laser pulse theoretically. As a prototype example, the photoionization of a hydrogen atom is considered in detail. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kamal P Singh , Jan M Rost

Thermally-activated magnetization dynamics of small nanoparticles subject to microwave (AC) external fields is studied. It is shown that, under sufficiently strong microwave excitations, chaotic magnetization dynamics may occur close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 M. d'Aquino , C. Serpico , S. Perna , A. Quercia , G. Bertotti , D. P. Ansalone , I. D. Mayergoyz

We consider the effects of a polarization electric field on transient ion motion in a thin current sheet. Using adiabatic invariants, we analytically describe a variety of ion trajectories in current sheet configurations which include a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Ethan Tsai , Anton Artemyev , Vassilis Angelopoulos

The total ionization rate of biharmonic ($\omega + 3\omega$) ionization is studied within the independent particle approximation and the third order perturbation theory. Particular attention is paid to how the polarization of the biharmonic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 J. Hofbrucker , S. Ramakrishna , A. V. Volotka , S. Fritzsche

Magnetic field line chaos occurs under the presence of non-axisymmetric perturbations of an axisymmetric equilibrium and is manifested by the destruction of smooth flux surfaces formed by the field lines. These perturbations also render the…

Analytical approximations are constructed for binding energies, quantum-mechanical sizes and oscillator strengths of main radiative transitions of hydrogen atoms arbitrarily moving in magnetic fields 10^{12}-10^{13} G. Examples of using the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Y. Potekhin

We study the motion of a charged particle in a tokamak magnetic field and discuss its chaotic nature. Contrary to most of recent studies, we do not make any assumption on any constant of the motion and solve numerically the cyclotron…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-05 Benjamin Cambon , Xavier Leoncini , Michel Vittot , Rémi Dumont , Xavier Garbet

We investigate scaling rules for the ionization cross sections of multicharged ions on molecules of biological interest. The cross sections are obtained using a methodology presented in [Mendez et al. J. Phys B (2020)], which considers…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2020-06-16 Alejandra M. P. Mendez , Claudia C. Montanari , Jorge E. Miraglia

The chaotic dynamics in a cell of particles' chain interacting by means of Lennard-Jones potential is considered. Chirikov criterion of resonance over- lapping is used as the condition of chaos. The asymptotic representation for this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 M. A. Guzev

When placed in parallel magnetic and electric fields, the electron trajectories of a classical hydrogen atom are chaotic. The classical escape rate of such a system can be computed with classical trajectory Monte Carlo techniques, but these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Ethan T. Custodio , Sulimon Sattari , Kevin A. Mitchell

In this thesis, we present a comprehensive study of chaos and thermalization of the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard Model (BHM) within the classical field approximation. Two quantitative measures are compared: the ensemble-averaged Finite-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-29 Amy C. Cassidy

The motion of charged particles in a crystal in the axial channeling regime can be both regular and chaotic. The chaos in quantum case manifests itself in the statistical properties of the energy levels set. These properties have been…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 N. F. Shul'ga , V. V. Syshchenko , A. I. Tarnovsky , V. I. Dronik , A. Yu. Isupov

We calculate the photo-ionization cross-section from the ground state of the helium atom, using the complex rotation method and diagonalization of sparse matrices. This produces directly the positions and widths of the doubly excited 1Po…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Benoit Gremaud , Dominique Delande