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We study the time dependence of the ionization probability of Rydberg atoms driven by a microwave field, both in classical and in quantum mechanics. The quantum survival probability follows the classical one up to the Heisenberg time and…

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We study a partially ionized hydrogen plasma by means of quantum molecular dynamics, which is based on wave packets. We introduce a new model which distinguishes between free and bound electrons. The free electrons are modelled as Gaussian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Ebeling , B. Militzer

The delta function gauge of the electromagnetic potential allows semiclassical formulas to be obtained for the probability of exciting a single electron out of the ground state in an ultrarelativistic heavy ion reaction. Exact formulas have…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. J. Baltz

From the analysis of the relaxation process of isolated lattice many-body quantum systems quenched far from equilibrium, we deduce a criterion for predicting when they are certain to thermalize. It is based on the algebraic behavior…

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We address the question of whether atomic bound states begin to stabilize in the short ultra-intense field limit. We provide a general theory of ionization probability and investigate its gauge invariance. For a wide range of potentials we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Fring , V. Kostrykin , R. Schrader

We analyze the time evolution of a one-dimensional quantum system with zero range potential under time periodic parametric perturbation of arbitrary strength and frequency. We show that the projection of the wave function on the bound state…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Costin , J. L. Lebowitz , A. Rokhlenko

We consider a system consisting of an atom in the approximation of a harmonic oscillator of frequency $\bar{\omega}$, coupled to the scalar potential inside a spherical reflecting cavity of radius R. We use {\it dressed} states introduced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Flores-Hidalgo , A. P. C. Malbouisson , Y. W. Milla

Model of biological effects of ionizing particles, especially of protons and other ions, is proposed. The model is based on distinguishing the single-particle and collective effects of the underlying radiobiological mechanism. The…

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We formulate a three-dimensional semi-classical model to address triple and double ionization in three-electron atoms driven by intense infrared laser pulses. During time propagation, our model fully accounts for the Coulomb singularities,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 M. B. Peters , G. P. Katsoulis , A. Emmanouilidou

Several modes of electroweak radioactive decay require an interaction between the nucleus and bound electrons within the constituent atom. Thus, the probabilities of the respective decays are not only influenced by the structure of the…

For the description of an H2 molecule an effective one-electron model potential is proposed which is fully determined by the exact ionization potential of the H2 molecule. In order to test the model potential and examine its properties it…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Armin Lühr , Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz

By using Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Semiclassical Quantization, one may argue that the low-lying excited states of any quantum system can be modeled by a set of harmonic oscillators. In the present paper, we fit the experimental…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Gabriel J. Gil Perez , Augusto Gonzalez

We apply time-dependent R-matrix theory to study inner-shell ionization of C atoms in ultra-short high-frequency light fields with a photon energy between 170 and 245 eV. At an intensity of 10$^{17}$ W/cm$^2$, ionization is dominated by…

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In this paper it is shown that if one accept assumption of de Broglie that "unitary wave-particle" exists simultaneously and this coexistence is real, then one can find the mean life time of the hydrogen atom of Bohr (intensities).…

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Bound-state $\beta^-$-decay is a rare radioactive process where the created electron is trapped in an atomic orbital instead of being emitted. It can be observed in highly ionized atoms in particular when normal beta decay is energetically…

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By extrapolating the energies of non-relativistic atoms and their ions with up to 3000 electrons within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, we find that the ionization potential remains finite and increases across a row, even as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Lucian A. Constantin , John C. Snyder , John P. Perdew , Kieron Burke

Depending on the Higgs-boson and top-quark masses, $M_H$ and $M_t$, the effective potential of the Standard Model at finite (and zero) temperature can have a deep and unphysical stable minimum $\langle \phi(T)\rangle$ at values of the field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. R. Espinosa , M. Quiros

The standard solution of the Schroedinger equation for the hydrogen atom is analyzed. Comparing with the recently established internal properties of electrons it is found, that these solutions cannot be seen as physically valid states of…

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We report observations of superradiance for atoms trapped in the near field of a photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). By fabricating the PCW with a band edge near the D$_1$ transition of atomic cesium, strong interaction is achieved between…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. Goban , C. -L. Hung , J. D. Hood , S. -P. Yu , J. A. Muniz , O. Painter , H. J. Kimble

We present an exact expression for the evolution of the wavefunction of $N$ interacting atoms in an arbitrarily time-dependent, $d$-dimensional parabolic trap potential $\omega(t)$. The interaction potential between atoms is taken to be of…

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