English

Decay, interference, and chaos: How simple atoms mimic disorder

Atomic Physics 2009-11-07 v2 Chaotic Dynamics Computational Physics

Abstract

We establish a close quantitative analogy between the excitation and ionization process of highly excited one electron Rydberg states under microwave driving and charge transport across disordered 1D lattices. Our results open a new arena for Anderson localization - a disorder induced effect - in a large class of perfectly deterministic, decaying atomic systems.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0212037,
  title  = {Decay, interference, and chaos: How simple atoms mimic disorder},
  author = {Andreas Krug and Sandro Wimberger and Andreas Buchleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0212037},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures (2 in colour), proceedings of The International Conference on Multiphoton Processes (ICOMP IX), October 2002: http://www.iesl.forth.gr/icomp9 ;submitted to EPJ

R2 v1 2026-07-22T18:55:00.697Z