Jan 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992sciam.266...78g&link_type=abstract
Scientific American (ISSN 0036-8733), vol. 266, Jan. 1992, p. 78-84.
Physics
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Atomic Energy Levels, Atomic Excitations, Chaos, Quantum Mechanics, Rydberg Series, Electron Scattering, Electron Trajectories, Hydrogen Atoms, Wave-Particle Interactions
Scientific paper
Results of recent work in quantum mechanics are presented showing that the smooth wavelike quantum world contains elements of chaos and that symptoms of chaos enter even into the wave patterns associated with atomic energy levels. It is shown that chaotic effects are present both in such quantum systems in which an electron is trapped or spatially confined and in atomic systems where an electron can roam freely, as it does when it is scattered from the atoms in a molecule. Chaos shows up in quantum scattering as variations in the amount of time the electron is temporarily caught inside the molecule during the scattering process.
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