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Accueil du site > Production et diffusion scientifique > Séminaires > Archives > 2010 > Multiphoton Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms

SEMINAIREJeudi 11 mars 2010, à 11 heures, salle Balmer

Multiphoton Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms

Joshua GURIAN

University of Charlottesville, USA

It has recently been proposed that microwave ionization of Rydberg atoms at frequencies above the classical Kepler frequency can be described by a dynamic Anderson localization model crossing over to a Fermi’s Golden Rule approach at the photoionization limit. Here we present results that indicate 17 and 36 GHz microwave ionization is instead best described by a strong coherent electric dipole coupling of levels both above and below the ionization limit. Below the ionization limit, the requisite fields for 50% multiphoton ionization are similar to the single photon photoionization 50% threshold field. The coherent coupling of states continues smoothly across the ionization limit, manifesting itself in above threshold ionization. The above threshold microwave recombination to bound Rydberg states can be well described by a simple classical model.

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