Symmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields

Details Symmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields Symmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields

1997-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9701014v2

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Atomic Physics

4 page REVTeX file including 5 postscript files (using psfig) Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Difference

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4705

We present the first observations of cylindrical symmetry breaking in highly excited diamagnetic hydrogen with a small crossed electric field, and we give a semiclassical interpretation of this effect. As the small perpendicular electric field is added, the recurrence strengths of closed orbits decrease smoothly to a minimum, and revive again. This phenomenon, caused by interference among the electron waves that return to the nucleus, can be computed from the azimuthal dependence of the classical closed orbits.

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