Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2009-06-29
Physics
Atomic Physics
37 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
Comparisons of experimental data with numerical predictions of a classical model indicate that an excited hydrogen atom in a pulsed microwave electric field exhibits a nonclassical increase of stability over a relatively wide range of frequencies. I show here that this is due to selective population of long-lived "scarred" states that are associated with the chaotic separatrix band surrounding the principal classical resonance zone in phase space. A quantum explanation is given in terms of adiabatic evolution of Floquet states and the destabilizing effect of two-level quantum resonances is investigated. The role of neighbouring classical resonance zones in defining the frequency range of stabilization is revealed both by quasienergy curves and by Husimi functions for the instantaneous quantum states.
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