Tunneling through light-induced molecular potentials in Ar2+

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 023401-023401

  Wunderlich, Christof ^a   Figger, Hartmut ^b   Hänsch, Theodor W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ATOMIC PHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GROUND STATE; LASER BEAMS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EXCITED STATE; LIGHT INDUCED MOLECULAR POTENTIALS; NONLINEAR PHOTODISSOCIATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0342409375     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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69. For instance, T. L. Gilbert and A. C. Wahl, J. Chem. Phys. 55, 5247 (1971); W. J. Stevens, M. Gardner, A. Karo, and P. Julienne, ibid. 67, 2860 (1977); W. R. Wadt, ibid. 68, 402 (1978); 73, 3915 (1980); P. A. Christiansen, K. S. Pitzer, Y. S. Lee, J. H. Yates, W. C. Ermler, and N. W. Winter, ibid. 75, 5410 (1981); H. U. Böhmer and S. D. Peyerimhoff, Z. Phys. D: At., Mol. Clusters 4, 195 (1986); M. T. Bowers, W. E. Palke, K. Robbins, C. Roehl, and S. Walsh, Chem. Phys. Lett. 180, 235 (1991); C. Cachoncinlle, J. M. Pouvesle, G. Durand, and F. Spiegelmann, J. Chem. Phys. 96, 6093 (1992); F. X. Gadea, J. Savrda, and I. Paidarova, Chem. Phys. Lett. 223, 370 (1994); Florent Xavier Gadea and Ivana Paidarova, Chem. Phys. 209, 281 (1996).
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