Phys. Rev. Lett. Phys. Rev. A Phys. Rev. B Phys. Rev. C Phys. Rev. D Phys. Rev. E Phys. Rev. ST AB Phys. Rev. ST AB Rev. Mod. Phys. Phys. Rev. (Series I) Phys. Rev. Volume: Page/Article: MyArticles: View Collection Help (Click on the to add an article.) Previous article Next article Issue 7 contents View Page Images PDF (912 kB), or Buy this Article New Photoelectric Ionization Peak in the Hydrogen Atom - Giulio Casati
- Boris V. Chirikov and Dima L. Shepelyansky
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Italo Guarneri
Received 16 December 1985 We present here analytical and numerical evidence which establishes that, for highly excited hydrogen atoms irradiated by microwaves, a large ionization peak occurs at frequencies much below those required for the conventional one-photon photoelectric effect. Indeed, we find that this ionization peak can, for suitable parameters values, be much higher than that of the usual photoelectric effect, a theoretical prediction which is currently being tested in the laboratory. A striking property of this ionization peak is that its frequency width is jointly determined by two independent effects: the classical chaotic threshold and the quantum delocalization border. URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v57/p823 | |
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