MULTIPLE TIME SCALES IN THE MICROWAVE IONIZATION OF RYDBERG ATOMS

Authors
BUCHLEITNER A DELANDE D ZAKRZEWSKI J MANTEGNA RN ARNDT M WALTHER H
Citation
A. Buchleitner et al., MULTIPLE TIME SCALES IN THE MICROWAVE IONIZATION OF RYDBERG ATOMS, Physical review letters, 75(21), 1995, pp. 3818-3821
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
75
Issue
21
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3818 - 3821
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1995)75:21<3818:MTSITM>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We investigate the time dependence of the ionization probability of Ry dberg atoms driven by microwave fields, both numerically and experimen tally. Our exact quantum results provide evidence for an algebraic dec ay law on suitably chosen time scales, a phenomenon that is considered to be the signature of nonhyperbolic scattering in unbounded classica lly chaotic motion.